/* Self-hosted variable font (static/fonts/plus-jakarta-sans.woff2, weight
axis 200-800) - both this file's `body{font-family:...}` and
bootstrap-overrides.css's `--bs-font-sans-serif` name "Plus Jakarta Sans"
as the first choice, but until now NOTHING ever actually loaded that
font (no , no @font-face) - every visitor silently fell back to
"Segoe UI"/system-ui the whole time, on every page. Self-hosted (one
~27KB file, no external request/CDN, matching the rest of the project's
vendor-everything-locally convention - Bootstrap/jQuery/Bootstrap Icons
are all local files already, no reason fonts should be the one exception
that reaches out to fonts.googleapis.com) rather than a Google Fonts
, which would also need a CSP allowance in
core/security_middleware.py for a font this project doesn't otherwise
depend on the network for. */
@font-face {
font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 200 800;
font-display: swap;
src: url("/static/fonts/plus-jakarta-sans.7660bd9909fb.woff2") format("woff2");
}
/* Display serif (2026-08 font pairing pass) - self-hosted variable font
(static/fonts/fraunces-variable.woff2, weight axis 600-900, optical-size
axis included so it stays crisp at large display sizes), same
self-hosting rationale as Plus Jakarta Sans above (no external request,
no CSP allowance needed). Used ONLY for large display headings (see
`--font-display` below and its consumers: .hero h1, .section-head h2,
.page-hero h1, .auth-split-brand h2) - a deliberate contrast-axis pairing
(serif display + geometric sans body/UI, not two similar sans-serifs)
that gives the brand-register marketing surfaces real typographic
character without touching product-register UI type (h3-h6, buttons,
labels, data - all stay Plus Jakarta Sans, per this project's existing
one-family-for-UI convention). */
@font-face {
font-family: "Fraunces";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 600 900;
font-display: swap;
src: url("/static/fonts/fraunces-variable.069cb90e11a3.woff2") format("woff2");
}
:root {
--font-display: "Fraunces", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
--brand-600: #4f46e5;
--brand-500: #6366f1;
--brand-400: #818cf8;
--brand-50: #eef2ff;
--accent-500: #14b8a6;
--ink-900: #0f172a;
--ink-700: #334155;
--ink-500: #64748b;
--ink-300: #cbd5e1;
--ink-100: #f1f5f9;
--surface: #ffffff;
--surface-alt: #f8fafc;
--danger: #dc2626;
--success: #16a34a;
--radius-lg: 20px;
--radius-md: 14px;
--radius-sm: 8px;
--shadow-sm: 0 1px 2px rgba(15, 23, 42, .06);
--shadow-md: 0 8px 24px rgba(15, 23, 42, .08);
--shadow-lg: 0 20px 45px rgba(79, 70, 229, .15);
/* Fluid container: identical to the old flat 1180px on every laptop/
desktop viewport up to ~1660px (the vast majority of real traffic -
`100vw - 480px` stays below the 1180px floor until then, so the clamp
floor wins and nothing changes there), then grows linearly to 1440px
by ~1920px so large/ultra-wide monitors stop wasting a fixed ~260px+
strip of bare background on each side. Always well under the viewport
itself at every width (100vw - 480px < 100vw), so this can never cause
horizontal overflow. */
--container: clamp(1180px, 100vw - 480px, 1440px);
}
/* Light theme only, by design - a fixed palette everywhere regardless of
OS/browser color-scheme preference, so buttons, links and text always
read against the same light surfaces. */
:root { color-scheme: light; }
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
html { scroll-behavior: smooth; }
html, body { height: 100%; }
/* The slide-in mobile nav uses position:fixed + translateX(100%) to sit
just off-screen when closed. Some browsers still count that
off-canvas, transformed bounding box toward the document's scrollable
area, producing a spurious horizontal scrollbar/overflow even though
nothing is visually out of place - this is the standard, defensive fix.
2026-08-30 FIX: this used to read `html, body { overflow-x: hidden; }`
- setting overflow-x on BOTH elements. Per the CSS Overflow spec, when
overflow-x is anything but `visible` and overflow-y is left
unspecified, the UA computes overflow-y as `auto` too. Combined with
`body`'s own `height: 100%` two lines up, that turned `` into a
second, independent scroll container exactly the size of the
viewport - the real page scroll stayed on `` (the actual
`document.scrollingElement`), but a mouse wheel/touch scroll over the
page would instead scroll ``'s own tiny internal scrollport
(confirmed via `document.body.scrollTop` moving while `window.scrollY`
never did), which visually looked exactly like "nothing below the
fold" - the real content was there, just trapped inside an
invisible-scrollbar box that never grew past one screen's worth.
`overflow-x: hidden` on `html` ALONE already clips the off-canvas nav
fine (`html` is the real scrolling element per the check above) -
`body` no longer needs its own overflow-x rule, so it keeps its
default `visible` overflow-y and stops competing with `html` for
scroll ownership. */
html { overflow-x: hidden; }
/* Sitewide body canvas texture (2026-08-12, "full-bleed body background"
pass). Every section/card on the site already paints its own explicit
background (--surface white cards, --surface-alt alternating home
sections, the dashboard's .dash-glow-zone, etc.), so this sits purely
BEHIND all of that - there's nothing here for those to visually
conflict with, it only ever shows through in the gaps between them
(page margins, section seams) where the body used to be a flat
--surface-alt grey.
Texture is a single 480x480 tile (static/img/illustrations/
body-texture.svg) of scattered education motifs - a math cluster
(sigma/integral/pi/root), orbit rings, a simple molecule, a sine wave,
a flask silhouette - each shape carrying its own baked-in 4.5% opacity
in brand-600 (see that file's own comment for the exact number).
Contrast check (computed, not eyeballed): blending 4.5% brand-600
(#4f46e5 = rgb(79,70,229)) over --surface-alt (#f8fafc = rgb(248,250,
252)) gives approx rgb(240,241,251) - a shift of at most 8 units on
any channel out of 255. Body text is --ink-900 (#0f172a), which sits
at ~15.8:1 contrast against plain --surface-alt; an 8-unit lightening
of the background can only ever move that down to roughly 15:1 in the
worst case, nowhere near the 4.5:1 floor. By construction (opacity
this low) the texture cannot meaningfully affect legibility anywhere
it appears under running text. */
body {
margin: 0;
font-family: "Plus Jakarta Sans", "Segoe UI", system-ui, -apple-system, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: var(--ink-900);
background-color: var(--surface-alt);
background-image: url("/static/img/illustrations/body-texture.433ed25a1312.svg");
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: top left;
background-size: 480px 480px;
line-height: 1.6;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
display: flex; flex-direction: column; min-height: 100vh;
}
/* Sticky footer: main grows to fill any leftover space so footer always
sits at the bottom of the viewport on short pages, but still flows
naturally below content on long pages. */
main { flex: 1 0 auto; }
footer { flex-shrink: 0; }
/* ---------- Typography scale (Task: sitewide typography pass, 2026-07-24) ----------
Before this pass, h1-h4 all shared one flat font-weight/color rule with no actual
font-size scale of their own (every page-specific heading either used a bespoke
inline size like `.hero h1`/`.section-head h2`, or - on plain content pages like
question_bank_detail.html/my_payments.html/student_dashboard.html - fell through
to Bootstrap's own default browser-agnostic h1-h6 sizes, which don't share this
project's rem scale/weight/letter-spacing at all, so two
s on two different
pages could render at visibly different sizes/weights for no reason). Establishes
one real scale (h1 largest down to h6 smallest, weight easing off at h5/h6 rather
than every heading being maximally bold) that every plain heading tag sitewide now
follows unless a page opts into one of the bespoke oversized hero/section variants
above/below (those keep their own clamp()-based sizing for their specific layout
role - this scale is the sane *default*, not a replacement for those). */
h1 { font-size: 2rem; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1.2; letter-spacing: -.01em; color: var(--ink-900); margin: 0 0 .6em; }
h2 { font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1.25; letter-spacing: -.01em; color: var(--ink-900); margin: 0 0 .55em; }
h3 { font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: -.005em; color: var(--ink-900); margin: 0 0 .5em; }
h4 { font-size: 1.05rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.35; color: var(--ink-900); margin: 0 0 .5em; }
h5 { font-size: .95rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; color: var(--ink-900); margin: 0 0 .5em; }
h6 { font-size: .85rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; color: var(--ink-700); text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .04em; margin: 0 0 .5em; }
/* Bold/emphasis: plain b/strong stays the body-text color (not brand blue - color
alone already used for links, weight alone is enough for in-paragraph emphasis so
the two signals don't collide) at the surrounding text's own weight+50, never
forced to 800/900 - a paragraph with several bold words shouldn't out-shout its
own heading. */
b, strong { color: var(--ink-900); font-weight: 700; }
/* reCAPTCHA v3 badge: hidden per-page (it has no UI to click), but Google's
terms require the disclosure text below wherever the API is loaded. */
.grecaptcha-badge { visibility: hidden; }
a { color: var(--brand-600); text-decoration: none; }
img { max-width: 100%; display: block; }
.container { max-width: var(--container); margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 24px; }
.icon { flex-shrink: 0; }
/* ---------- Navbar ----------
Rebuilt 2026-07-24 to use Bootstrap5's real navbar/collapse/dropdown
components (navbar-toggler + .collapse.navbar-collapse driven purely by
bootstrap.bundle.min.js's own JS, data-bs-toggle="collapse"/"dropdown" -
no custom hand-rolled open/close JS needed anymore). Only small brand-fit
additions live here now; the old .nav-links/.dropdown-panel/.mega-panel/
.mobile-toggle/.nav-scrim rules (and their >1300px-breakpoint overrides
further down this file) drove a fully custom nav implementation that
never actually used Bootstrap5's toggle/collapse JS API - removed
entirely rather than left as confusing dead weight alongside the real
Bootstrap markup now in templates/base.html. */
.navbar {
z-index: 1030;
transition: box-shadow .25s ease, background-color .25s ease, backdrop-filter .25s ease;
}
.navbar-scrolled {
box-shadow: 0 10px 34px rgba(15, 23, 42, .09);
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .92) !important;
backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
-webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(10px);
}
.brand-badge {
width: 36px; height: 36px; border-radius: 10px;
background: var(--brand-600);
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; color: #fff; font-weight: 900;
}
/* Navbar shell (2026-08-28 polish pass) - a soft elevation shadow instead
of a flat 1px border-bottom, so the sticky navbar reads as a distinct,
floating layer above page content on scroll rather than a hairline
rule that visually fuses with whatever's directly under it. */
.site-navbar { box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(15, 23, 42, .06), 0 1px 2px rgba(15, 23, 42, .04); padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; }
/* Navbar brand lockup (2026-08 navbar redesign) - replaces the old
raster-image fallback (static/img/navlogo.png, cropped via CSS to hide a
mismatched baked-in tagline) with a real, self-built mark + wordmark: no
image dependency, nothing to crop or mis-scale at any viewport. The
`.brand-badge` gradient square gets a circular variant + a graduation-cap
glyph instead of a plain "P", and the wordmark uses the site's own
display weight/tracking so it reads as a confident lockup, not a plain
text link. */
.navbar-brand-badge {
width: 38px; height: 38px; border-radius: 11px; font-size: 1.05rem;
box-shadow: 0 6px 16px rgba(79, 70, 229, .28);
}
.navbar-brand-word {
font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: -.01em; color: var(--ink-900);
}
/* Admin-uploaded logo (site.logo branch in base.html) - height-capped,
width auto so nothing is ever stretched/squashed regardless of the
uploaded image's own aspect ratio. */
.navbar-logo-img { height: 36px; width: auto; max-width: 160px; object-fit: contain; }
/* Nav links: an animated brand-gradient underline instead of a flat active
color, so the current page and hover state both read with real motion
feedback rather than a single static color swap. Scoped to `.nav-link-
text` (base.html) specifically - the icon-only cart button and the
avatar dropdown toggle also carry Bootstrap's `.nav-link` class but
don't want an underline drawn under an icon. */
.nav-link-text {
position: relative; font-weight: 600; margin: 0 2px; border-radius: 999px; color: var(--ink-700);
padding: 8px 14px !important; transition: background .15s ease, color .15s ease;
}
.nav-link-text:hover { background: var(--ink-100); color: var(--ink-900); }
.nav-link-text.active { color: var(--brand-600); }
.nav-link-text::after {
content: ""; position: absolute; left: 14px; right: 14px; bottom: 2px; height: 2px; border-radius: 2px;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, var(--brand-600), var(--accent-500));
transform: scaleX(0); transform-origin: left; transition: transform .25s cubic-bezier(.16, 1, .3, 1);
}
.nav-link-text:hover::after, .nav-link-text.active::after { transform: scaleX(1); }
/* Cart / icon-only nav buttons - a real circular hit target with a hover
background instead of a bare icon floating in the nav row. */
.navbar-icon-btn {
width: 40px; height: 40px; border-radius: 50%; display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
color: var(--ink-700); font-size: 1.05rem; transition: background .15s ease, color .15s ease;
}
.navbar-icon-btn:hover { background: var(--ink-100); color: var(--brand-600); }
/* Avatar dropdown toggle - a real initials chip (brand gradient circle)
instead of a generic bi-person-circle glyph, matching the identity
language `.brand-badge`/`.icon-badge` already use elsewhere on the site. */
.navbar-avatar-btn { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; padding: 6px 10px !important; border-radius: 999px; text-decoration: none; transition: background .15s ease; }
.navbar-avatar-btn:hover { background: var(--ink-100); }
.navbar-avatar {
width: 30px; height: 30px; border-radius: 50%; flex-shrink: 0;
background: var(--brand-600);
color: #fff; font-weight: 800; font-size: .82rem; display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
}
.navbar-avatar-btn span:not(.navbar-avatar) { color: var(--ink-900); font-weight: 600; font-size: .92rem; }
.navbar-avatar-caret { font-size: .7rem; color: var(--ink-500); }
/* Mega dropdown for "Classes": wider than Bootstrap's default dropdown-menu
so a whole class/course/subject-group hierarchy can lay out in columns;
collapses back to the dropdown's natural full-width block on narrow
viewports (matches the navbar-collapse breakpoint) rather than
overflowing sideways off-screen. */
.mega-dropdown-menu {
min-width: 560px; max-width: min(880px, 92vw); border: none; border-radius: var(--radius-lg, 16px);
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px rgba(15, 23, 42, .12), 0 2px 8px rgba(15, 23, 42, .06); margin-top: 10px !important;
}
@media (max-width: 991.98px) {
.mega-dropdown-menu { min-width: 0; width: 100%; max-width: none; box-shadow: none; margin-top: 0 !important; }
}
.dropdown-menu { border-radius: var(--radius-md, 12px); border-color: var(--ink-100); box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgba(15, 23, 42, .1); }
/* Navbar search box (2026-08-28 redesign, v2 - wider/taller pill with a
real submit affordance) - a real pill-shaped search field with a soft
neutral fill and a brand focus ring, sized to actually read as a
primary piece of navbar chrome rather than a cramped 240px afterthought
squeezed between the nav links and the avatar. Capped width + vertically
centered at desktop (lg+) so it doesn't stretch across the whole
nav-item row; goes full-width the moment the navbar collapses
(<992px, matching every other navbar-expand-lg breakpoint already used
in this file). */
.navbar-search-form { max-width: 300px; }
@media (min-width: 1200px) {
.navbar-search-form { max-width: 340px; }
}
@media (max-width: 991.98px) {
.navbar-search-form { max-width: none; }
}
.navbar-search-group {
border-radius: 999px; overflow: hidden; background: var(--surface-alt);
border: 1px solid var(--ink-200); box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(15, 23, 42, .04);
transition: border-color .15s ease, box-shadow .15s ease, background .15s ease;
}
.navbar-search-group:hover { border-color: var(--ink-300); }
.navbar-search-group:focus-within {
border-color: var(--brand-400); background: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 4px var(--brand-50), 0 2px 8px rgba(15, 23, 42, .06);
}
.navbar-search-group .input-group-text { background: transparent; border: none; color: var(--ink-500); padding: 0 4px 0 16px; font-size: .95rem; }
.navbar-search-group .form-control {
background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; padding: 10px 6px; font-size: .92rem; height: auto;
}
.navbar-search-group .form-control::placeholder { color: var(--ink-500); }
.navbar-search-submit-btn {
border: none; background: transparent; color: var(--ink-500); width: 40px; flex-shrink: 0;
display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: 1rem;
transition: background .15s ease, color .15s ease;
}
.navbar-search-submit-btn:hover { background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600); }
.navbar-search-group:focus-within .navbar-search-submit-btn { color: var(--brand-600); }
/* ---------- Buttons ---------- */
.btn {
display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; gap: 8px;
padding: 11px 22px; border-radius: 999px; font-weight: 700; font-size: .95rem;
/* Bug found sitewide (2026-08, during the home-page rhythm pass): this
used to be a hardcoded `border: 1px solid transparent`, which - since
this rule loads after bootstrap.min.css/bootstrap-overrides.css at
equal (0,1,0) specificity - unconditionally won the cascade over
Bootstrap's OWN `.btn-outline-primary`/`.btn-outline-secondary`/etc,
which set their real border color via the `--bs-btn-border-color`
custom property rather than a literal value. The result: every plain
Bootstrap outline button anywhere on the site (navbar "Log in", the
home hero's "Browse Classes" before it was fixed locally, any other
page using `.btn-outline-primary` directly) rendered with a fully
invisible border - text-only, no visible edge. Deferring to the
variable (falling back to transparent only when nothing sets it, e.g.
`.btn-primary`/`.btn-link` which have no border variant) fixes every
such button sitewide in one place instead of requiring a per-page
`!important` workaround like `.home-page .btn-outline-primary-strong`
needed - that page-scoped class stays as an intentional STRONGER
(2px) variant, not a workaround for this bug anymore. */
border: 1px solid var(--bs-btn-border-color, transparent);
cursor: pointer; transition: transform .15s ease, box-shadow .15s ease, background .15s ease, border-color .15s ease;
}
.btn:active { transform: scale(.97); }
/* Solid, not the diagonal two-stop brand gradient this file used to
apply to nearly every filled surface (buttons, badges, icon circles) -
the same 135deg indigo->teal recipe repeated on unrelated elements
read as generic/AI-templated rather than designed. Depth now comes
from box-shadow + a real hover-state color shift instead. */
.btn-primary { background: var(--brand-600); color: #fff; box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg); transition: background .15s ease, box-shadow .15s ease, transform .15s ease; }
.btn-primary:hover { background: var(--brand-500); box-shadow: 0 22px 50px rgba(79,70,229,.28); transform: translateY(-1px); }
.btn-outline { background: transparent; border-color: var(--ink-300); color: var(--ink-900); }
.btn-outline:hover { border-color: var(--brand-500); color: var(--brand-600); }
.btn-ghost { background: transparent; color: var(--ink-700); }
.btn-block { width: 100%; }
.btn-sm { padding: 8px 16px; font-size: .85rem; }
/* ---------- Hero ---------- */
.hero { position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding: 76px 0 90px; }
.hero-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1.05fr .95fr; gap: 48px; align-items: center; }
.eyebrow {
display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600);
font-weight: 700; font-size: .8rem; padding: 6px 14px; border-radius: 999px; margin-bottom: 18px;
}
.hero h1 { font-family: var(--font-display); font-size: clamp(2.1rem, 4vw, 3.4rem); font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.08; margin: 0 0 18px; letter-spacing: -.02em; text-wrap: balance; }
.hero p.lead { font-size: 1.15rem; color: var(--ink-700); max-width: 540px; margin: 0 0 30px; }
.hero-actions { display: flex; gap: 14px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 34px; }
.hero-stats { display: flex; gap: 34px; flex-wrap: wrap; }
.hero-stat b { display: block; font-size: 1.5rem; color: var(--ink-900); }
.hero-stat span { font-size: .85rem; color: var(--ink-500); }
.hero-art { position: relative; }
.blob {
position: absolute; border-radius: 50%; filter: blur(10px); opacity: .5; z-index: 0;
background: radial-gradient(circle at 30% 30%, var(--brand-400), transparent 70%);
animation: float 8s ease-in-out infinite;
}
@keyframes float { 0%, 100% { transform: translateY(0) } 50% { transform: translateY(-18px) } }
.hero-search {
position: relative; z-index: 2; background: var(--surface); border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg); padding: 22px; border: 1px solid var(--ink-100);
}
.search-box { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px; background: var(--surface-alt); border-radius: var(--radius-md); padding: 12px 16px; border: 1px solid var(--ink-100); }
.search-box input { border: none; background: none; outline: none; flex: 1; font-size: .95rem; color: var(--ink-900); }
.search-chips { display: flex; gap: 8px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-top: 14px; }
.chip { background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600); font-size: .8rem; font-weight: 600; padding: 6px 12px; border-radius: 999px; }
/* ---------- Hero photo panel (image-treatment) ----------
Real photography (hero-study.jpg) layered into .hero-art as a small
rounded, shadowed panel peeking from behind the bottom-left corner of
the functional .hero-search mockup card - it does NOT replace the
search mockup, just adds a photographic accent beside it. z-index 1
keeps it above the abstract .blob (z-index 0) but below .hero-search
(z-index 2), and it lives entirely inside the image-only .hero-art
column, never behind or under the hero copy in the text column, so it
can't affect that text's contrast. */
.hero-photo-wrap {
position: absolute; z-index: 1; width: 200px; height: 240px;
left: -26px; bottom: -26px; border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
overflow: hidden; box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg); border: 4px solid var(--surface);
transform: rotate(-4deg);
}
.hero-photo-wrap img { width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block; }
.hero-photo-wrap::after {
content: ""; position: absolute; inset: 0;
background: linear-gradient(160deg, rgba(79, 70, 229, .22), rgba(15, 23, 42, .05));
}
@media (max-width: 600px) {
.hero-photo-wrap { width: 120px; height: 150px; left: -12px; bottom: -12px; border-width: 3px; }
}
/* ---------- Hero carousel (admin-managed HeroSlide rows, pages/models.py) ----------
Multiple `.hero-slide`s share one `.hero-slide-track`; only `.is-active`
is displayed (crossfade via `heroFadeIn`). JS (main.js) toggles
`.is-active` + the `inert` attribute together, so an inactive slide's
links/inputs are neither visible nor tabbable - inert is the actual
accessibility gate, not just the opacity. Falls back to a single
always-active slide with no JS at all (server renders `.is-active` on
the first slide already), so nothing here is JS-dependent for the
common one-slide case. */
.hero-slide { display: none; }
.hero-slide.is-active { display: block; }
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
.hero-slide.is-active { animation: heroFadeIn .5s ease both; }
}
@keyframes heroFadeIn { from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(10px); } to { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); } }
.hero-offer-badge {
display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; background: #fef3c7; color: #92400e;
font-weight: 700; font-size: .78rem; padding: 6px 12px; border-radius: 999px; margin: 0 0 12px;
}
.btn-hero-fill { color: #fff; border: 2px solid transparent; }
.btn-hero-fill:hover { filter: brightness(1.07); }
.btn-hero-outline { background: transparent; border: 2px solid; }
.btn-hero-outline:hover { background: rgba(15, 23, 42, .05); }
.hero-logo-wrap {
position: relative; z-index: 1; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
width: 100%; min-height: 320px;
}
.hero-logo-wrap img { width: 220px; height: 220px; object-fit: contain; filter: drop-shadow(0 18px 30px rgba(15, 23, 42, .12)); }
.hero-search-inline { max-width: 460px; margin-top: 8px; }
.hero-search-inline .search-box { background: var(--surface); box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg); }
.hero-carousel-controls { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; gap: 18px; margin-top: 8px; }
.hero-carousel-arrow {
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; width: 38px; height: 38px;
border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid var(--ink-100); background: var(--surface); color: var(--ink-700);
cursor: pointer; transition: background .15s, color .15s, border-color .15s;
}
.hero-carousel-arrow:hover { background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600); border-color: var(--brand-400); }
.hero-dots { display: flex; gap: 8px; }
.hero-dot {
width: 9px; height: 9px; border-radius: 50%; background: var(--ink-300); border: none; padding: 0;
cursor: pointer; transition: background .15s, transform .15s;
}
.hero-dot.is-active { background: var(--brand-600); transform: scale(1.2); }
@media (max-width: 600px) {
.hero-logo-wrap { min-height: 220px; }
.hero-logo-wrap img { width: 150px; height: 150px; }
}
/* ---------- Sections ---------- */
.section { padding: 72px 0; }
.section-head { text-align: center; max-width: 640px; margin: 0 auto 44px; }
.section-head h2 { font-family: var(--font-display); font-weight: 700; font-size: clamp(1.6rem, 3vw, 2.2rem); margin: 10px 0 12px; letter-spacing: -.01em; text-wrap: balance; }
.section-head p { color: var(--ink-500); font-size: 1.05rem; }
.kicker { color: var(--brand-600); font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .06em; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: .8rem; }
/* ---------- Cards / Grid ---------- */
.grid { display: grid; gap: 24px; }
.grid-3 { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr); }
.grid-4 { grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr); }
.grid-2 { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); }
.card {
background: var(--surface); border-radius: var(--radius-md); border: 1px solid var(--ink-100);
padding: 28px; box-shadow: var(--shadow-sm); transition: transform .2s ease, box-shadow .2s ease;
}
.card:hover { transform: translateY(-4px); box-shadow: var(--shadow-md); }
.card-icon {
width: 60px; height: 60px; border-radius: 16px; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600); margin-bottom: 18px;
}
.card h3 { margin: 0 0 8px; font-size: 1.1rem; }
.card p { margin: 0; color: var(--ink-500); font-size: .93rem; }
.level-card { background: var(--surface); border-radius: var(--radius-lg); padding: 30px; border: 1px solid var(--ink-100); position: relative; overflow: hidden; }
.level-card::before {
content: ""; position: absolute; inset: 0; background: linear-gradient(160deg, var(--brand-50), transparent 60%); opacity: .7;
}
.level-card * { position: relative; }
.level-badge { width: 46px; height: 46px; border-radius: 12px; background: var(--brand-600); color: #fff; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 16px; }
/* ---------- CTA band ---------- */
.cta-band {
background: var(--brand-600); border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
padding: 56px; color: #fff; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; gap: 30px; flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.cta-band h2 { margin: 0 0 8px; font-size: 1.8rem; }
.cta-band p { margin: 0; opacity: .9; }
.cta-band .btn-primary { background: #fff; color: var(--brand-600); box-shadow: none; }
/* ---------- Full-bleed photo band (image-treatment) ----------
A standalone section - independent of .cta-band above - that gives the
homepage one moody, full-bleed photography moment using the dark/
textured open-notes.jpg as a background. A near-opaque dark scrim
(rgba(15,23,42,.82-.9), i.e. close to solid var(--ink-900)) sits between
the photo and the text so white heading/body copy stays comfortably
above the 4.5:1 AA contrast minimum no matter which part of the source
photo lands behind it. Background image is referenced the same way the
sitewide self-hosted @font-face at the top of this file references
/static/fonts/... directly - static/img/photos/ is a fixed, versioned
collection, not per-view data. */
.photo-band {
position: relative; border-radius: var(--radius-lg); overflow: hidden;
padding: 64px 40px; text-align: center;
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(15, 23, 42, .82), rgba(15, 23, 42, .9)), url("/static/img/photos/open-notes.913ed87a83ea.jpg");
background-size: cover; background-position: center;
}
.photo-band-content { position: relative; z-index: 1; max-width: 620px; margin: 0 auto; }
.photo-band-content .kicker { color: var(--brand-400); }
.photo-band-content h2 { color: #fff; margin: 10px 0 14px; font-size: clamp(1.6rem, 3vw, 2.2rem); }
.photo-band-content p { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .85); font-size: 1.05rem; margin: 0 0 26px; }
@media (max-width: 600px) {
.photo-band { padding: 48px 22px; }
}
/* ---------- Footer ----------
Column layout is now a real Bootstrap5 `.row`/`.col-*` grid (see
templates/base.html) instead of the old fixed 4-column CSS grid
(`.footer-grid`, `1.4fr 1fr 1fr 1fr` with no tablet-width step between
4-across and a single stacked column) - `.footer-col` below only styles
the link-list typography/color inside each Bootstrap column, it no
longer owns the column widths themselves. */
footer { background: var(--ink-900); color: #cbd5e1; padding: 60px 0 26px; margin-top: 40px; }
.footer-brand-word { font-size: 1.15rem; font-weight: 800; color: #fff; letter-spacing: -.01em; }
/* 2026-08-30 nav/footer polish pass: a short accent underline instead of
plain white text gives each footer column a real section-heading feel
at a glance, matching the brand-gradient underline already used on
`.nav-link-text` above rather than introducing a new visual language. */
.footer-col h4 {
color: #fff; font-size: .82rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .04em; text-transform: uppercase;
margin: 0 0 18px; padding-bottom: 10px; position: relative;
}
.footer-col h4::after {
content: ""; position: absolute; left: 0; bottom: 0; width: 28px; height: 2px; border-radius: 2px;
background: var(--brand-500);
}
.footer-col ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.footer-col li { margin-bottom: 10px; }
.footer-col a { color: #94a3b8; font-size: .9rem; transition: color .15s ease; }
.footer-col a:hover { color: #fff; }
.footer-contact { margin: 18px 0 0; }
.footer-contact li { margin-bottom: 10px; }
.footer-contact a, .footer-contact span { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; color: #cbd5e1; font-size: .88rem; }
.footer-contact a:hover { color: #fff; }
.footer-contact .muted { color: #64748b; font-size: .78rem; }
.footer-social { display: flex; gap: 10px; margin-top: 18px; flex-wrap: wrap; }
.footer-social a {
width: 36px; height: 36px; border-radius: 999px; background: rgba(255,255,255,.08);
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; color: #fff; transition: background .15s ease, transform .15s ease;
}
.footer-social a:hover { background: var(--brand-500); transform: translateY(-2px); }
.social-chip {
width: 40px; height: 40px; border-radius: 999px; background: var(--brand-50); color: var(--brand-600);
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; transition: background .15s ease, color .15s ease, transform .15s ease;
}
.social-chip:hover { background: var(--brand-600); color: #fff; transform: translateY(-2px); }
.footer-bottom { border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.1); margin-top: 40px; padding-top: 20px; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; font-size: .82rem; color: #64748b; }
/* ---------- Forms ---------- */
/* Explicit, guaranteed-4.5:1 placeholder color sitewide (2026-08-13) -
previously left to Bootstrap's own default (`--bs-secondary-color`,
opacity-derived from body text color), which is fine on plain white but
drifts on any tinted input background (e.g. `.login-hero-form .form-
control`'s var(--surface) fill). One explicit rule everywhere instead of
guessing per-context. */
.form-control::placeholder { color: var(--ink-500); opacity: 1; }
.auth-shell { position: relative; max-width: 560px; margin: 60px auto; padding: 0 20px; }
/* 2026-08-30: the full-viewport auth-bg.svg wash (dot-grid scatter + soft
blob shapes behind the card) is gone - on a real screen it read as a
busy, drenched-gradient background competing with the card itself
instead of supporting it (explicit "the gradients look cheap" feedback
on the auth/cart flow). The page now sits on the site's plain
--surface-alt background; the card/split-card's own header/brand-panel
gradient is the only saturated color on the page, which is enough. */
/* No padding on .auth-card itself on purpose: the lower section of every
template using it nests its content in Bootstrap's own
`.card-body.p-4.p-md-5`, which already provides responsive padding
(24px mobile / 48px desktop). Adding padding here too would double-stack
it. The card is now two visually distinct bands - a branded gradient
header (`.auth-card-header`, full-bleed, clipped to the card's own
border-radius via overflow:hidden below) and a body with its own faint
brand tint fading to white - rather than a single flat sheet with a
small icon floating on it. */
.auth-card {
position: relative;
background: var(--surface); border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-md), 0 24px 60px rgba(79, 70, 229, .16);
border: 1px solid var(--ink-100);
overflow: hidden;
}
.auth-card .form-control, .auth-card .form-select { padding-top: .6rem; padding-bottom: .6rem; }
/* Faint brand tint at the top of the body, fading to plain white by the
time it reaches the form fields - a echo of the header gradient above
it rather than a hard cut from "saturated" to "flat white". */
.auth-card .card-body { padding-top: 32px; background: linear-gradient(180deg, var(--brand-50) 0%, var(--surface) 200px); }
.auth-card h1 { font-size: 1.5rem; margin: 0 0 6px; }
.auth-card .sub { color: var(--ink-500); margin-bottom: 26px; font-size: .93rem; }
/* Branded gradient header band - reuses the exact gradient already
established on register.html's `.auth-split-brand` panel elsewhere in
this file, so the single-column auth pages read as the same product
rather than a generic Bootstrap card with an icon on it. */
.auth-card-header {
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
text-align: center;
padding: 40px 40px 34px;
background: linear-gradient(155deg, var(--brand-600) 0%, var(--brand-500) 55%, var(--accent-500) 130%);
}
.auth-card-header::before {
content: ""; position: absolute; inset: -45% -25% auto auto; width: 240px; height: 240px;
border-radius: 50%; background: radial-gradient(circle, rgba(255, 255, 255, .18), transparent 70%);
}
.auth-card-header::after {
content: ""; position: absolute; inset: auto auto -55% -15%; width: 200px; height: 200px;
border-radius: 50%; background: radial-gradient(circle, rgba(255, 255, 255, .12), transparent 70%);
}
.auth-card-header .icon-badge {
position: relative;
width: 54px; height: 54px; font-size: 1.35rem; margin-bottom: 10px;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .18);
color: #fff;
box-shadow: none;
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, .3);
}
/* Small uppercase eyebrow above the heading - the Stripe/Linear-style
third typographic voice (between the icon and the display heading)
that gives the header real hierarchy instead of icon-then-heading. */
.auth-card-header .kicker {
position: relative; display: block; font-size: .72rem; font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: .16em; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .78);
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.auth-card-header h1 {
position: relative; color: #fff; margin: 0 0 8px;
font-family: var(--font-display); font-weight: 700; font-size: 1.85rem; letter-spacing: -.01em;
}
.auth-card-header .sub { position: relative; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .86); margin: 0; font-size: .95rem; font-weight: 400; }
.auth-card-header .step-row { position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 18px; }
.auth-card-header .step-row .badge { background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) !important; color: #fff !important; border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .35) !important; }
.auth-card-header .step-row .helper-text { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .8); margin-top: 0; }
/* Error/expired-link variant of the header (password_reset_confirm.html) -
a warmer red gradient instead of the brand one, same treatment otherwise. */
.auth-card-header.auth-card-header-danger { background: linear-gradient(155deg, #dc2626 0%, #ef4444 60%, #f87171 130%); }
.icon-badge-danger { background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .18); color: #fff; box-shadow: none; border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, .3); }
/* Typographic hierarchy inside the white body: bold, slightly larger
labels against regular-weight helper copy, rather than one flat weight
for every line of text in the form. */
.auth-card .form-label, .auth-split-form .form-label { font-weight: 700; font-size: .87rem; color: var(--ink-900); }
.auth-card .form-text, .auth-split-form .form-text { font-weight: 400; color: var(--ink-500); }
.auth-card .btn-primary, .auth-split-form .btn-primary, .auth-card .btn-outline-secondary {
font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .01em; padding-top: .7rem; padding-bottom: .7rem;
}
/* ---------- OTP entry (verify.html, password_reset_verify_phone.html) ----------
2026-08-13 OTP UX pass. `.otp-boxes` progressively replaces the single
VerifyCodeForm text input (static/js/main.js's wireOtpBoxes) with 6
individually-focused digit boxes; the real field is kept in the DOM
(visually-hidden, aria-hidden) as the actual submitted value and as the
no-JS fallback - see accounts/forms.py's VerifyCodeForm docstring. */
.otp-boxes { display: flex; justify-content: center; gap: 10px; margin: 4px 0 6px; }
.otp-box {
width: 46px; height: 54px; text-align: center; font-size: 1.4rem; font-weight: 700;
color: var(--ink-900); background: var(--surface-alt); border: 1.5px solid var(--ink-300);
border-radius: var(--radius-sm); outline: none; transition: border-color .15s, box-shadow .15s, background-color .15s;
}
.otp-box:focus { border-color: var(--brand-500); background: var(--surface); box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--brand-50); }
.otp-box.is-filled { border-color: var(--brand-400); background: var(--surface); }
.otp-boxes.is-invalid .otp-box { border-color: var(--danger); }
@media (max-width: 380px) { .otp-box { width: 38px; height: 48px; font-size: 1.2rem; } .otp-boxes { gap: 7px; } }
/* Expiry + resend status row beneath the OTP boxes - small, muted, never
competing with the primary "Verify" action. `.otp-status-urgent` (last
60s of the expiry countdown, set by main.js) shifts the expiry text to
the danger color so a code about to lapse actually reads as urgent. */
.otp-status { display: flex; justify-content: center; gap: 6px; font-size: .82rem; color: var(--ink-500); margin-top: 2px; }
.otp-status-urgent { color: var(--danger); font-weight: 600; }
.otp-status-expired { color: var(--danger); font-weight: 600; }
.field { margin-bottom: 18px; }
.field label { display: block; font-weight: 600; font-size: .85rem; margin-bottom: 6px; color: var(--ink-700); }
.field input, .field textarea, .field select {
width: 100%; padding: 12px 14px; border-radius: var(--radius-sm); border: 1px solid var(--ink-300);
font-size: .95rem; background: var(--surface); color: var(--ink-900); outline: none; transition: border-color .15s;
}
.field input:focus, .field textarea:focus, .field select:focus { border-color: var(--brand-500); box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--brand-50); }
.field .errorlist { list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 6px 0 0; color: var(--danger); font-size: .82rem; }
/* Leading icons inside form fields (full name, email, phone, identifier,
institution, password). Wraps just the input itself (not the label) in
`.field-input-wrap` so the icon centers on the input box regardless of
label height/wrapping - no fragile per-template pixel offsets needed. */
.field-input-wrap { position: relative; display: flex; align-items: center; }
.field-input-wrap .field-icon {
position: absolute; left: 14px; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); z-index: 2;
color: var(--ink-500); font-size: .95rem; pointer-events: none; line-height: 1;
}
.field-input-wrap .form-control, .field-input-wrap .form-select { padding-left: 40px; }
/* Required-field marker - added next to the label text (not a placeholder
trick) only for fields that are actually `required=True` on the Django
form; optional fields simply carry no mark instead of an "(optional)"
label suffix. */
.required-mark { color: var(--danger); margin-left: 2px; }
/* Right-side live-validation status icon (e.g. phone format check) -
independent of the left-side `.field-icon` and the password toggle,
sits at the same right offset a `.pw-field` toggle button would (this
is only ever used on non-password fields, so no collision). Hidden
until JS opts a field into a validity state via `.is-valid`/`.is-invalid`
on the wrapper. */
.field-input-wrap .field-status-icon {
position: absolute; right: 14px; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%);
font-size: 1rem; display: none; pointer-events: none;
}
.field-input-wrap.is-valid .field-status-icon.bi-check-circle-fill { display: block; color: var(--success); }
.field-input-wrap.is-invalid .field-status-icon.bi-x-circle-fill { display: block; color: var(--danger); }
.field-match-note { font-size: .82rem; margin-top: 6px; }
.field-match-note.text-success { color: var(--success); }
.field-match-note.text-danger { color: var(--danger); }
/* Reserve room on the right for the phone field's live-validation icon
(register.html) so typed digits never run under it. */
#phone-field-wrap .form-control { padding-right: 40px; }
/* Password inputs get wrapped a second time by main.js in `.pw-field`
(right-side show/hide toggle, padding-right: 44px - see below). That
wrapper nests inside `.field-input-wrap`, so this rule's padding-left
and the `.pw-field` rule's padding-right both land on the same
`.form-control` without conflicting. */
/* ---------- Auth split layout (register.html) ----------
The single-column .auth-card works for a 1-2 field form (login,
password reset) but a full registration form left a lot of the page
as bare background either side of a narrow centered box - "full width"
here isn't stretching the inputs themselves (a wide text input is its
own usability problem) but giving the page real structure: a brand/
value-prop panel + a form panel, side by side, the pattern most
product signup flows use (Linear/Stripe/Notion-style split screen)
instead of a lonely floating card. Field pairs that are natural
alternatives (email/phone) or related (class/institution) sit in a
2-column grid within the form panel itself, so the extra width is
doing real layout work, not just padding. */
/* Widened 1000px -> 1180px (2026-08-13, explicit "increase the register
form width" request) - the form panel's own 2-column field grid
(auth-field-grid, register.html) was noticeably cramped at 1000px total
width once split against the brand panel; matches this project's
standard --container reading width instead of a bespoke narrower one. */
.auth-split { position: relative; max-width: 1180px; margin: 48px auto; padding: 0 20px; }
/* 2026-08-30: full-viewport auth-bg.svg wash removed here too - see
.auth-shell's own note above for the full rationale. */
.auth-split-card {
position: relative;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: minmax(0, .85fr) minmax(0, 1.25fr);
background: var(--surface);
border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
box-shadow: var(--shadow-lg), 0 20px 60px rgba(79, 70, 229, .12);
border: 1px solid var(--ink-100);
overflow: hidden;
}
.auth-split-card::before {
content: ""; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; height: 4px; z-index: 1;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, var(--brand-600), var(--accent-500));
}
.auth-split-brand {
position: relative;
background: linear-gradient(155deg, var(--brand-600) 0%, var(--brand-500) 55%, var(--accent-500) 130%);
color: #fff;
padding: 44px 40px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: space-between;
gap: 32px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.auth-split-brand::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: -40% -20% auto auto;
width: 280px;
height: 280px;
border-radius: 50%;
background: radial-gradient(circle, rgba(255, 255, 255, .16), transparent 70%);
}
.auth-split-logo { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px; font-weight: 800; font-size: 1.05rem; position: relative; }
.auth-split-logo .brand-badge { background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .18); }
.auth-split-brand h2 { font-family: var(--font-display); font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: 1.2; margin: 20px 0 10px; font-weight: 700; position: relative; text-wrap: balance; }
.auth-split-brand p { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .82); font-size: .93rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0; position: relative; }
.auth-split-features { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 16px; position: relative; }
.auth-split-features li { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; gap: 12px; font-size: .88rem; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .94); }
.auth-split-feature-icon {
flex-shrink: 0; width: 32px; height: 32px; border-radius: 9px;
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, .16); display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; font-size: .95rem;
}
.auth-split-quote {
position: relative; font-size: .82rem; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .78);
padding-top: 18px; border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, .2);
}
.auth-split-form { padding: 44px 48px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; }
.auth-split-form h1 { font-family: var(--font-display); font-weight: 700; font-size: 1.9rem; letter-spacing: -.01em; margin: 0 0 8px; }
.auth-split-form .sub { color: var(--ink-500); margin-bottom: 22px; font-size: .95rem; font-weight: 400; }
/* More color/weight presence on the step indicator than Bootstrap's flat
grey `.text-bg-light` default - ties it to the brand palette instead of
reading as an unstyled leftover component. */
.auth-split-form .badge.text-bg-light { background: var(--brand-50) !important; color: var(--brand-600) !important; border-color: var(--brand-100, #e0e7ff) !important; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: .02em; }
.auth-split-form .helper-text { color: var(--ink-500); font-weight: 500; }
.auth-field-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; gap: 0 16px; }
@media (max-width: 991.98px) {
.auth-split-card { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
.auth-split-brand { display: none; }
}
@media (max-width: 575.98px) {
.auth-split-form { padding: 32px 22px; }
.auth-field-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
}
/* .login-hero-* (cardless login layout) removed 2026-08-30 - login now
shares the same .auth-split-card shell as register/forgot-password
(see templates/accounts/login.html + partials/auth_brand_panel.html)
instead of being a one-off inconsistent layout next to them. */
/* Password show/hide toggle - wrapper + button injected purely by
static/js/main.js around every `input[type=password]` sitewide, no
template changes needed. `.form-control`'s own padding-right is bumped
here (not in the widget's own `class` attr) so this is the single place
that has to change if the field's own right-padding ever does. */
/* `width:100%` on `.pw-field input.form-control` below only ever meant
"100% of `.pw-field` itself" - and `.pw-field` (a plain