User wanted the testimonial section to feel "of the page" rather than
a card sitting on top of it, and to occupy less vertical space.
- Strip all chrome from .card--testimonial: transparent background,
no border, no shadow, no hover lift. Same treatment applied in the
swiss + cosmos overrides so per-theme backgrounds don't sneak back.
- Restructure the carousel markup to put the prev/next buttons
directly beside the viewport (carousel--inline = flex row), no
separate controls block, no dot indicators.
- Shrink the curly quote mark and the avatar (44 -> 32px); tighten
internal gaps. Removed the rule above the attribution row.
- Keep healthy horizontal padding via clamp() so the arrows don't
crowd the surrounding sections.
- Update aria-label on the carousel itself instead of the dots so
screen readers still get position context.
New `type: "testimonial"` with structured attribution
(quote/name/role/org/url/image/date) plus a `layout: "testimonials"`
section behavior that renders the items as a tasteful crossfade
carousel — one quote at a time, 7s auto-advance, prev/next nav, dot
indicators, swipe support, ←/→ keys, pause on hover/focus, ARIA
live region.
Reduced-motion users automatically get .carousel--stacked: every
testimonial visible at once, controls hidden, no auto-advance. A
single-item section also skips the carousel chrome.
Per-template treatment: editorial uses Fraunces italic for the curly
quote mark and the body, swiss strips uppercase from titles per prior
fix, cosmos glows the mark with the cyan/violet accent stack.
Section auto-detects the layout when the first item is a testimonial,
matching how the clients layout already works.
Third theme template scoped to :root[data-template="cosmos"], joining
editorial and swiss. Set "theme.template": "cosmos" in links.json to
activate.
Background — full-viewport WebGL fragment shader running a 5-octave
warped fBm nebula in indigo/violet/magenta/cyan, with a two-layer
procedural starfield (small dense + sparse blue-white halo) twinkling
on independent phases. Pointer-tracking gravity well subtly perturbs
sampling around the cursor. Pixel ratio capped at 1.5x for fill-rate;
loop pauses on visibility change.
UI — Orbitron display + Geist body, glassmorphic cards with
backdrop-filter, conic-gradient holographic borders driven by
@property --cosmos-hue rotating on hover, gradient-clip section
numbers and project titles, chromatic-split hero last name on hover
(::before + ::after pseudos with mix-blend-mode screen using a
data-text attr), glowing drift-orb in place of the editorial asterism,
animated section-head accent line.
Fallbacks — prefers-reduced-motion or WebGL-unavailable triggers the
.cosmos-static class with a CSS-only radial-gradient nebula and all
heavy animations disabled. Always-dark regardless of theme toggle.
README documents the new template; links.example.json unchanged.
