v0.39.7— Quieter Counts

Changed

• The star and download counts in the website header now sit in their own chip. Each metric — the star with its number, the download arrow with its number — sits on a very light green fill from the Kandown palette, set a fifth smaller than the text beside it and held at 60% opacity. They were competing with the navigation for attention while being the least urgent thing in the bar. The chip has no border: at this size an outline around a pale fill reads as noise, and the fill alone already separates the value from the brand.
• The GitHub and npm logos keep their full strength. Only the metrics are dimmed and shrunk. The two marks are what make each link recognisable before it is read, and they are already calibrated as logos — fading them makes the header look washed out rather than calm.
• The star and its count are dark orange; the download arrow and its count stay npm red. Each metric now carries its own colour independently of the mark beside it, so the number is tied to the service it counts for without the GitHub mark being repainted along with it — a tinted Octocat stops reading as the Octocat.
• Hovering either link grows it to 1.2× over 200ms and brings the metric back to full opacity. Scaling does not affect layout, so the link grows over its neighbours rather than pushing them and the header does not jitter as the pointer crosses it. The effect is dropped entirely under a reduced-motion preference, where the colour change still reports the hover.
• The two links sit further apart. Each is now four elements wide, and at the previous spacing the npm wordmark sat close enough to the GitHub count to read as part of the same group.