Redesign the landing page around a print-forensics palette

The old page was the default dark-SaaS template: near-black ground,
violet gradient headline, blur-glow orbs, glassmorphic rounded cards,
emoji icons. It looked like every other generated landing page and said
nothing about what the product is for.

This one is built out of document materials, because the product is
about documents:

- Warm newsprint stock (#f2efe6) and warm near-black ink instead of
  near-black and violet. Two accents only, each with a job: vermilion is
  reserved exclusively for content that was hiding, olive for content
  that has been cleared. Nothing else gets to be colored.
- Instrument Serif carries the headlines, Geist Mono carries labels and
  metadata, so the UI sans never has to pretend to be expressive.
- Hairline rules do the structural work that bordered cards were doing.
  The six hiding places are now a numbered editorial list rather than a
  grid of identical rounded boxes, and the pipeline steps are a ruled
  table with serif numerals.
- Left-aligned asymmetric hero with a colophon block, rather than
  everything stacked down the center axis.
- The self-host section inverts to ink for tonal contrast, which also
  gives the terminal block somewhere natural to live.

The page also now practices what it preaches: there is a real
white-on-white sentence planted in the hero, and an X-ray switch in the
nav reveals it. Selecting it works too, the same way it would in a PDF
viewer.

The four-stage demo keeps its behavior and moves to the new palette.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

client/src/app/globals.css

@@ -1,5 +1,35 @@
 @import "tailwindcss";
 
+/*
+ * Two palettes live here. The signed-in app is dark (see dashboard/layout);
+ * the marketing page is paper. The landing page is about documents, so it is
+ * built out of document materials: warm newsprint stock, near-black ink, a
+ * single vermilion reserved for content that was hiding, and an olive for
+ * content that has been cleared. Nothing else gets to be colored.
+ */
+@theme {
+  /* Paper stock — warm, never pure white. */
+  --color-stock: #f2efe6;
+  --color-sheet: #fbfaf6;
+
+  /* Ink — warm near-black, never pure black. */
+  --color-ink: #17150f;
+  --color-ink-soft: #57534a;
+  --color-ink-faint: #8b857a;
+
+  /* Hairlines do the structural work that borders-on-cards would. */
+  --color-rule: #dcd6c7;
+  --color-rule-soft: #e8e3d8;
+
+  /* Vermilion: reserved exclusively for revealed hidden content. */
+  --color-signal: #bf3517;
+  --color-signal-wash: #f7e5df;
+
+  /* Olive: the cleared / verified state. */
+  --color-verified: #3d5a37;
+  --color-verified-wash: #e5ebe1;
+}
+
 :root {
   --background: #0a0a0a;
   --foreground: #ededed;
@@ -10,6 +40,8 @@
   --color-foreground: var(--foreground);
   --font-sans: var(--font-geist-sans);
   --font-mono: var(--font-geist-mono);
+  --font-display: var(--font-instrument-serif), "Iowan Old Style", Georgia,
+    serif;
 }
 
 body {
@@ -18,7 +50,7 @@ body {
   font-family: var(--font-sans), system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;
 }
 
-/* Smooth scrollbar for dark theme */
+/* Neutral enough to read against both the dark app and the paper landing. */
 ::-webkit-scrollbar {
   width: 6px;
   height: 6px;
@@ -27,9 +59,17 @@ body {
   background: transparent;
 }
 ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
-  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
+  background: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.35);
   border-radius: 3px;
 }
 ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover {
-  background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
+  background: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.55);
+}
+
+/* Mono label used throughout the landing page for metadata and section marks. */
+.label {
+  font-family: var(--font-mono), ui-monospace, monospace;
+  font-size: 0.6875rem;
+  letter-spacing: 0.16em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
 }

client/src/app/layout.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
-import { Geist, Geist_Mono } from "next/font/google";
+import { Geist, Geist_Mono, Instrument_Serif } from "next/font/google";
 import "./globals.css";
 import Providers  from "@/lib/SessionProvider";
 
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ const geistMono = Geist_Mono({
   subsets: ["latin"],
 });
 
+// Display face for the landing page. High-contrast and editorial — it carries
+// the headlines so the UI sans never has to pretend to be expressive.
+const instrumentSerif = Instrument_Serif({
+  variable: "--font-instrument-serif",
+  subsets: ["latin"],
+  weight: "400",
+  style: ["normal", "italic"],
+});
+
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: "XRayPDF — Strip hidden text out of PDFs",
   description:
@@ -34,7 +43,7 @@ export default function RootLayout({
     <html lang="en">
       <Providers>
       <body
-        className={`${geistSans.variable} ${geistMono.variable} antialiased`}
+        className={`${geistSans.variable} ${geistMono.variable} ${instrumentSerif.variable} antialiased`}
       >
         {children}
       </body>

client/src/app/page.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { signIn, useSession } from "next-auth/react";
 import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
-import { useEffect } from "react";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import HiddenTextDemo from "@/components/HiddenTextDemo";
 
 const REPO_URL = "https://github.com/geneticglitch1/XRayPDF";
@@ -11,359 +11,368 @@ const REPO_URL = "https://github.com/geneticglitch1/XRayPDF";
 const HIDING_SPOTS = [
   {
     title: "White text on white paper",
-    desc: "The classic. Rendered in #FFFFFF, invisible on screen and in print, still returned verbatim by every text extractor.",
-    caught: "Contrast normalization drags it into visible gray.",
+    desc: "Rendered in #FFFFFF. Invisible on screen and in print, still returned verbatim by every text extractor.",
+    caught: "Contrast normalization drags it into visible gray",
   },
   {
     title: "Near-zero font sizes",
-    desc: "Text set at 0.5pt reads as a smudge or as nothing at all, but copies and pastes back at full length.",
-    caught: "Renders at 2× scale, so the smudge becomes glyphs.",
+    desc: "Text set at half a point reads as a smudge, or as nothing at all, but copies and pastes back at full length.",
+    caught: "Renders at 2× scale, so the smudge becomes glyphs",
   },
   {
-    title: "Text hidden behind images",
-    desc: "A full-page graphic drawn on top of a text run. Looks like a scan; it is not a scan.",
-    caught: "Flattening rebuilds the page from what's actually visible.",
+    title: "Text behind images",
+    desc: "A full-page graphic drawn on top of a live text run. Looks like a scan. It is not a scan.",
+    caught: "Flattening rebuilds the page from what is visible",
   },
   {
     title: "Invisible render modes",
-    desc: "PDF text render mode 3 draws nothing at all. The characters are in the file and in the clipboard, and on no pixel of the page.",
-    caught: "The export drops the text layer entirely.",
+    desc: "PDF text render mode 3 draws nothing at all. The characters are in the file and in your clipboard, and on no pixel of the page.",
+    caught: "The export drops the text layer entirely",
   },
   {
     title: "Content parked off-page",
     desc: "Positioned outside the crop box. Never displayed, never printed, always extracted.",
-    caught: "Cropped away by the render, gone from the export.",
+    caught: "Cropped away by the render, gone from the export",
   },
   {
     title: "Leftover revision data",
     desc: "Incremental-save history and orphaned objects that keep earlier drafts alive inside the same file.",
-    caught: "Not carried over — the export is a fresh document.",
+    caught: "Not carried over — the export is a fresh document",
   },
 ];
 
 const STEPS = [
   {
     n: "01",
-    title: "Rasterize every page",
-    desc: "pdfjs renders each page to a PNG at 2× scale on a forced white background. This is the honest picture of the document — whatever is actually drawn, and nothing else.",
+    title: "Rasterize",
+    tool: "pdfjs-dist + @napi-rs/canvas",
+    desc: "Every page renders to a PNG at 2× scale on a forced white background. This is the honest picture of the document: whatever is actually drawn, and nothing else.",
   },
   {
     n: "02",
     title: "Push the contrast",
-    desc: "sharp flattens alpha onto white, converts to grayscale, stretches the histogram across the full 0–255 range, and sharpens. Ink that was one shade off white lands in plain view.",
+    tool: "sharp",
+    desc: "Flatten alpha onto white, convert to grayscale, stretch the histogram across the full 0–255 range, sharpen. Ink that was one shade off white lands in plain view.",
   },
   {
     n: "03",
-    title: "Read it back with OCR",
-    desc: "Tesseract runs over the sanitized image and returns word boxes with per-word confidence. Overlay them on the page to see exactly where the surprises are.",
+    title: "Read it back",
+    tool: "tesseract.js",
+    desc: "OCR runs over the sanitized image and returns word boxes with per-word confidence. Overlay them on the page to see exactly where the surprises are.",
   },
   {
     n: "04",
-    title: "Export a flat PDF",
-    desc: "pdf-lib rebuilds the document from the page images. No text layer, no annotations, no object history — nothing left for anything to hide inside.",
+    title: "Flatten the export",
+    tool: "pdf-lib",
+    desc: "Rebuild the document from the page images. No text layer, no annotations, no object history — nothing left for anything to hide inside.",
   },
 ];
 
 export default function Home() {
   const { data: session, status } = useSession();
   const router = useRouter();
+  const [xray, setXray] = useState(false);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (session) router.replace("/dashboard");
   }, [session, router]);
 
   return (
-    <div className="relative flex min-h-screen flex-col overflow-x-hidden bg-[#0a0a0a] text-white">
-      {/* Ambient glow */}
-      <div className="pointer-events-none absolute -top-40 left-1/2 h-[600px] w-[900px] -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-violet-600/20 blur-[160px]" />
-
-      {/* Nav */}
-      <nav className="relative z-10 flex items-center justify-between px-6 py-6 md:px-16">
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 text-xl font-bold tracking-tight">
-          <span className="inline-flex h-8 w-8 items-center justify-center rounded-lg bg-violet-600 text-sm font-black">
-            X
+    <div className="min-h-screen bg-stock text-ink">
+      {/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nav */}
+      <nav className="border-b border-rule">
+        <div className="mx-auto flex max-w-[70rem] items-center justify-between px-6 py-5">
+          <span className="font-display text-xl tracking-tight">
+            XRay<span className="text-signal">PDF</span>
           </span>
-          XRayPDF
-        </div>
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
-          <a
-            href="#self-host"
-            className="hidden rounded-full px-4 py-2.5 text-sm font-medium text-zinc-400 transition hover:text-white sm:block"
-          >
-            Self-host
-          </a>
-          <button
-            onClick={() => signIn("google")}
-            disabled={status === "loading"}
-            className="rounded-full bg-white px-5 py-2.5 text-sm font-semibold text-black transition hover:bg-zinc-200 disabled:opacity-50"
-          >
-            {status === "loading" ? "Loading..." : "Sign in with Google"}
-          </button>
+
+          <div className="flex items-center gap-3 sm:gap-6">
+            {/* The page practices what it preaches: there is white-on-white
+                text planted in the hero, and this switch reveals it. */}
+            <button
+              onClick={() => setXray((v) => !v)}
+              aria-pressed={xray}
+              className="label group flex items-center gap-2 text-ink-soft transition-colors hover:text-ink"
+            >
+              <span
+                className={`relative h-3.5 w-6 border transition-colors ${
+                  xray ? "border-signal bg-signal" : "border-ink-faint"
+                }`}
+              >
+                <span
+                  className={`absolute top-0.5 h-2 w-2 bg-stock transition-all ${
+                    xray ? "left-3.5" : "left-0.5"
+                  }`}
+                />
+              </span>
+              X-ray
+            </button>
+
+            <button
+              onClick={() => signIn("google")}
+              disabled={status === "loading"}
+              className="bg-ink px-5 py-2.5 text-sm font-medium text-stock transition-colors hover:bg-signal disabled:opacity-50"
+            >
+              {status === "loading" ? "…" : "Sign in"}
+            </button>
+          </div>
         </div>
       </nav>
 
-      {/* Hero */}
-      <main className="relative z-10 flex flex-col items-center px-6 pt-10 text-center md:pt-16">
-        <div className="mb-5 inline-flex items-center gap-2 rounded-full border border-white/10 bg-white/5 px-4 py-1.5 text-xs font-medium text-zinc-400 backdrop-blur">
-          <span className="h-1.5 w-1.5 rounded-full bg-emerald-400" />
-          Open source &middot; Self-hostable &middot; Files never leave your box
-        </div>
+      {/* --------------------------------------------------------------- Hero */}
+      <header className="mx-auto max-w-[70rem] px-6">
+        <div className="grid gap-10 border-b border-rule py-16 md:py-24 lg:grid-cols-[1.6fr_1fr] lg:gap-20">
+          <div>
+            <p className="label mb-8 text-ink-faint">
+              Document sanitizer · Apache-2.0
+            </p>
 
-        <h1 className="max-w-4xl text-5xl font-extrabold leading-[1.05] tracking-tight md:text-7xl">
-          Get the{" "}
-          <span className="bg-gradient-to-r from-violet-400 via-fuchsia-400 to-pink-400 bg-clip-text text-transparent">
-            invisible text
-          </span>{" "}
-          out of your PDFs
-        </h1>
+            <h1 className="font-display text-[3.25rem] leading-[0.95] tracking-tight sm:text-7xl lg:text-[5.5rem]">
+              Every PDF you send
+              <br />
+              is hiding{" "}
+              <em className="text-signal italic">something</em>.
+            </h1>
 
-        <p className="mt-6 max-w-2xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-zinc-400 md:text-xl">
-          A PDF can carry text that no human ever sees and every machine reads
-          in full — white ink on white paper, 0.5pt type, whole paragraphs
-          parked off the edge of the page. XRayPDF surfaces it, shows you what
-          it found, and hands back a file with none of it left.
-        </p>
+            <p className="mt-8 max-w-xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+              White ink on white paper. Half-point type. Paragraphs parked
+              outside the crop box. It renders as nothing and extracts at full
+              length — and the machines reading your file get all of it.
+            </p>
 
-        <div className="mt-9 flex flex-col gap-3 sm:flex-row">
-          <button
-            onClick={() => signIn("google")}
-            className="group inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 rounded-full bg-violet-600 px-8 py-3.5 text-sm font-semibold transition hover:bg-violet-500"
-          >
-            Scan a PDF — free
-            <svg
-              className="h-4 w-4 transition group-hover:translate-x-0.5"
-              viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-              fill="none"
-              stroke="currentColor"
-              strokeWidth={2.5}
-              strokeLinecap="round"
-              strokeLinejoin="round"
-              aria-hidden="true"
+            {/* Planted white-on-white text, revealed by the X-ray switch. */}
+            <p
+              className={`mt-4 max-w-xl text-lg leading-relaxed transition-colors duration-300 ${
+                xray
+                  ? "text-signal"
+                  : "text-stock selection:bg-signal selection:text-white"
+              }`}
             >
-              <path d="M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6" />
-            </svg>
-          </button>
-          <a
-            href="#self-host"
-            className="inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 rounded-full border border-white/10 px-8 py-3.5 text-sm font-semibold text-zinc-300 transition hover:border-white/25 hover:text-white"
-          >
-            <svg
-              className="h-4 w-4"
-              viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-              fill="none"
-              stroke="currentColor"
-              strokeWidth={2}
-              strokeLinecap="round"
-              strokeLinejoin="round"
-              aria-hidden="true"
-            >
-              <path d="M4 17V7a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v10a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H6a2 2 0 0 1-2-2Z" />
-              <path d="M8 9h8M8 13h5" />
-            </svg>
-            Run it yourself
-          </a>
-        </div>
-      </main>
+              This sentence is white on white. You just switched on the x-ray —
+              which is exactly the trick the essay below is playing.
+            </p>
 
-      {/* Live demo */}
-      <section className="relative z-10 mx-auto mt-20 w-full max-w-6xl px-6 md:mt-28">
-        <div className="mb-8 text-center">
-          <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-bold tracking-[0.2em] text-violet-400 uppercase">
-            See it happen
-          </p>
-          <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
-            One page, four passes
-          </h2>
-          <p className="mx-auto mt-3 max-w-xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-            The essay below has a line of white text sitting on white paper.
-            Step through what the pipeline does to it.
+            <div className="mt-10 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-8">
+              <button
+                onClick={() => signIn("google")}
+                className="bg-ink px-7 py-3.5 font-medium text-stock transition-colors hover:bg-signal"
+              >
+                Scan a PDF
+              </button>
+              <a
+                href="#self-host"
+                className="border-b border-ink-faint pb-0.5 font-medium text-ink transition-colors hover:border-signal hover:text-signal"
+              >
+                Run it on your own box
+              </a>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+
+          {/* Colophon — the metadata block a printed document would carry. */}
+          <dl className="self-end space-y-0 border-t border-rule lg:border-t-0 lg:border-l lg:pl-10">
+            {[
+              ["Upload cap", "10 MB · 12 pages"],
+              ["OCR engine", "Tesseract LSTM, local"],
+              ["Your files", "Never leave the host"],
+              ["Image", "ghcr.io · amd64 + arm64"],
+            ].map(([k, v]) => (
+              <div
+                key={k}
+                className="flex justify-between gap-4 border-b border-rule-soft py-3"
+              >
+                <dt className="label text-ink-faint">{k}</dt>
+                <dd className="text-right text-sm text-ink-soft">{v}</dd>
+              </div>
+            ))}
+          </dl>
+        </div>
+      </header>
+
+      {/* --------------------------------------------------------------- Demo */}
+      <section className="mx-auto max-w-[70rem] px-6 py-16 md:py-24">
+        <div className="mb-10 flex flex-wrap items-end justify-between gap-4">
+          <div>
+            <p className="label mb-3 text-signal">One page, four passes</p>
+            <h2 className="font-display max-w-lg text-4xl leading-tight sm:text-5xl">
+              Watch a payload stop hiding
+            </h2>
+          </div>
+          <p className="max-w-xs text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+            The essay below carries a line of white text on white paper. Step
+            through what the pipeline does to it.
           </p>
         </div>
+
         <HiddenTextDemo />
       </section>
 
-      {/* Where things hide */}
-      <section className="relative z-10 mx-auto mt-24 w-full max-w-6xl px-6 md:mt-32">
-        <div className="mb-10 max-w-2xl">
-          <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-bold tracking-[0.2em] text-violet-400 uppercase">
-            The unknown stuff
-          </p>
-          <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
-            Six places a PDF keeps text you never agreed to send
-          </h2>
-          <p className="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-            Resumes, papers, invoices, contracts — anything that gets passed
-            through an automated reader is worth checking before it leaves your
-            hands, and worth flattening before you trust one you received.
-          </p>
-        </div>
+      {/* ------------------------------------------------------ Hiding places */}
+      <section className="border-t border-rule bg-sheet">
+        <div className="mx-auto max-w-[70rem] px-6 py-16 md:py-24">
+          <div className="mb-12 max-w-2xl">
+            <p className="label mb-3 text-signal">The unknown stuff</p>
+            <h2 className="font-display text-4xl leading-tight sm:text-5xl">
+              Six places a PDF keeps text you never agreed to send
+            </h2>
+            <p className="mt-5 leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+              Résumés, papers, invoices, contracts — anything that passes
+              through an automated reader is worth checking before it leaves
+              your hands, and worth flattening before you trust one you
+              received.
+            </p>
+          </div>
 
-        <div className="grid gap-4 md:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3">
-          {HIDING_SPOTS.map((spot) => (
-            <div
-              key={spot.title}
-              className="group flex flex-col rounded-2xl border border-white/5 bg-white/[0.02] p-6 transition hover:border-white/15 hover:bg-white/[0.04]"
-            >
-              <h3 className="mb-2 text-base font-semibold text-white">
-                {spot.title}
-              </h3>
-              <p className="mb-4 flex-1 text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-                {spot.desc}
-              </p>
-              <div className="flex items-start gap-2 border-t border-white/5 pt-3 text-xs leading-relaxed text-emerald-400/90">
-                <svg
-                  className="mt-0.5 h-3.5 w-3.5 shrink-0"
-                  viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-                  fill="none"
-                  stroke="currentColor"
-                  strokeWidth={2.5}
-                  strokeLinecap="round"
-                  strokeLinejoin="round"
-                  aria-hidden="true"
-                >
-                  <path d="M20 6 9 17l-5-5" />
-                </svg>
-                {spot.caught}
-              </div>
-            </div>
-          ))}
+          <ol className="grid border-t border-rule md:grid-cols-2">
+            {HIDING_SPOTS.map((spot, i) => (
+              <li
+                key={spot.title}
+                className={`border-b border-rule py-7 md:py-8 ${
+                  i % 2 === 0 ? "md:pr-10" : "md:border-l md:border-rule md:pl-10"
+                }`}
+              >
+                <div className="flex gap-5">
+                  <span className="label mt-1 shrink-0 text-ink-faint">
+                    {String(i + 1).padStart(2, "0")}
+                  </span>
+                  <div>
+                    <h3 className="font-display text-2xl leading-snug">
+                      {spot.title}
+                    </h3>
+                    <p className="mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+                      {spot.desc}
+                    </p>
+                    <p className="mt-4 flex gap-2 text-sm text-verified">
+                      <span aria-hidden="true">→</span>
+                      <span>{spot.caught}</span>
+                    </p>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+              </li>
+            ))}
+          </ol>
         </div>
       </section>
 
-      {/* How it works */}
-      <section className="relative z-10 mx-auto mt-24 w-full max-w-5xl px-6 md:mt-32">
-        <div className="mb-10 max-w-2xl">
-          <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-bold tracking-[0.2em] text-violet-400 uppercase">
-            Under the hood
-          </p>
-          <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
-            No model, no guessing
+      {/* -------------------------------------------------------- How it works */}
+      <section className="mx-auto max-w-[70rem] px-6 py-16 md:py-24">
+        <div className="mb-12 max-w-2xl">
+          <p className="label mb-3 text-signal">Under the hood</p>
+          <h2 className="font-display text-4xl leading-tight sm:text-5xl">
+            No model. No guessing.
           </h2>
-          <p className="mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-            There is no classifier deciding what looks suspicious. The pipeline
-            is four deterministic steps, and the last one removes the hiding
-            places rather than trying to spot every trick.
+          <p className="mt-5 leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+            Nothing here classifies what looks suspicious. Four deterministic
+            steps, and the last one removes the hiding places rather than trying
+            to enumerate every trick.
           </p>
         </div>
 
-        <div className="grid gap-px overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-white/10 bg-white/5 sm:grid-cols-2">
+        <div className="border-t border-rule">
           {STEPS.map((step) => (
-            <div key={step.n} className="bg-[#0a0a0a] p-7">
-              <span className="mb-3 block font-mono text-xs font-bold text-violet-400">
+            <div
+              key={step.n}
+              className="grid gap-3 border-b border-rule py-7 md:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr_1.4fr] md:items-baseline md:gap-8"
+            >
+              <span className="font-display text-3xl text-signal">
                 {step.n}
               </span>
-              <h3 className="mb-2 text-lg font-semibold">{step.title}</h3>
-              <p className="text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-                {step.desc}
-              </p>
+              <div>
+                <h3 className="font-display text-2xl leading-snug">
+                  {step.title}
+                </h3>
+                <p className="label mt-1.5 text-ink-faint">{step.tool}</p>
+              </div>
+              <p className="leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">{step.desc}</p>
             </div>
           ))}
         </div>
 
-        <p className="mt-5 text-xs leading-relaxed text-zinc-600">
-          A flattened export is not searchable or selectable any more — that is
-          the trade. Keep the original if you need the text layer; send the
-          clean copy when you don&apos;t know what is in the file.
+        <p className="mt-6 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed text-ink-faint">
+          <span className="font-medium text-ink-soft">The trade:</span> a
+          flattened export is no longer searchable or selectable. Keep the
+          original when you need the text layer; send the clean copy when you
+          don&apos;t know what is in the file.
         </p>
       </section>
 
-      {/* Self-host */}
-      <section
-        id="self-host"
-        className="relative z-10 mx-auto mt-24 w-full max-w-5xl scroll-mt-8 px-6 md:mt-32"
-      >
-        <div className="overflow-hidden rounded-3xl border border-white/10 bg-gradient-to-b from-white/[0.04] to-transparent">
-          <div className="grid gap-8 p-8 md:grid-cols-2 md:p-12">
-            <div>
-              <p className="mb-2 text-xs font-bold tracking-[0.2em] text-violet-400 uppercase">
-                Self-host
-              </p>
-              <h2 className="mb-3 text-3xl font-bold tracking-tight">
-                One image, published to GHCR
-              </h2>
-              <p className="mb-5 text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-400">
-                Multi-arch builds for amd64 and arm64 ship on every push to
-                main. Bring a Postgres and a Google OAuth client, and the
-                compose file does the rest — migrations run on boot, uploads
-                land in a named volume, and no document ever leaves your host.
-              </p>
-              <a
-                href={REPO_URL}
-                target="_blank"
-                rel="noopener noreferrer"
-                className="inline-flex items-center gap-2 rounded-full border border-white/15 px-5 py-2.5 text-sm font-semibold text-zinc-200 transition hover:border-white/30 hover:text-white"
-              >
-                <svg
-                  className="h-4 w-4"
-                  fill="currentColor"
-                  viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-                  aria-hidden="true"
-                >
-                  <path d="M12 0C5.37 0 0 5.37 0 12c0 5.31 3.435 9.795 8.205 11.385.6.105.825-.255.825-.57 0-.285-.015-1.23-.015-2.235-3.015.555-3.795-.735-4.035-1.41-.135-.345-.72-1.41-1.23-1.695-.42-.225-1.02-.78-.015-.795.945-.015 1.62.87 1.845 1.23 1.08 1.815 2.805 1.305 3.495.99.105-.78.42-1.305.765-1.605-2.67-.3-5.46-1.335-5.46-5.925 0-1.305.465-2.385 1.23-3.225-.12-.3-.54-1.53.12-3.18 0 0 1.005-.315 3.3 1.23.96-.27 1.98-.405 3-.405s2.04.135 3 .405c2.295-1.56 3.3-1.23 3.3-1.23.66 1.65.24 2.88.12 3.18.765.84 1.23 1.905 1.23 3.225 0 4.605-2.805 5.625-5.475 5.925.435.375.81 1.095.81 2.22 0 1.605-.015 2.895-.015 3.3 0 .315.225.69.825.57A12.02 12.02 0 0 0 24 12c0-6.63-5.37-12-12-12z" />
-                </svg>
-                Setup guide on GitHub
-              </a>
-            </div>
-
-            <div className="overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border border-white/10 bg-black/50">
-              <div className="border-b border-white/5 px-4 py-2 font-mono text-[11px] text-zinc-500">
-                terminal
-              </div>
-              <pre className="overflow-x-auto p-4 font-mono text-[11px] leading-relaxed text-zinc-300 sm:text-xs">
-                <code>
-                  <span className="text-zinc-600">
-                    # pull the published image
-                  </span>
-                  {"\n"}
-                  <span className="text-violet-400">docker</span> pull
-                  ghcr.io/geneticglitch1/xraypdf:latest{"\n\n"}
-                  <span className="text-zinc-600">
-                    # or bring the whole stack up
-                  </span>
-                  {"\n"}
-                  <span className="text-violet-400">cp</span> .env.example .env
-                  {"\n"}
-                  <span className="text-violet-400">docker</span> compose up -d
-                  {"\n\n"}
-                  <span className="text-zinc-600">
-                    # app on :3000, migrations applied
-                  </span>
-                </code>
-              </pre>
-            </div>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-      </section>
-
-      {/* Closing CTA */}
-      <section className="relative z-10 mx-auto mt-24 w-full max-w-3xl px-6 pb-24 text-center md:mt-32">
-        <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold tracking-tight md:text-4xl">
-          Check the next PDF before you forward it
-        </h2>
-        <p className="mx-auto mt-3 max-w-md text-sm leading-relaxed text-zinc-500">
-          Ten megabytes, twelve pages, about a minute. You will find out
-          whether there was anything in there.
-        </p>
-        <button
-          onClick={() => signIn("google")}
-          className="mt-7 inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 rounded-full bg-violet-600 px-8 py-3.5 text-sm font-semibold transition hover:bg-violet-500"
-        >
-          Sign in with Google
-        </button>
-      </section>
-
-      {/* Footer */}
-      <footer className="relative z-10 border-t border-white/5 px-6 py-8">
-        <div className="mx-auto flex max-w-6xl flex-col items-center justify-between gap-3 text-xs text-zinc-600 sm:flex-row">
-          <span>
-            &copy; {new Date().getFullYear()} XRayPDF &mdash; Apache-2.0
-          </span>
-          <div className="flex items-center gap-5">
+      {/* ---------------------------------------------------------- Self-host */}
+      <section id="self-host" className="scroll-mt-4 bg-ink text-stock">
+        <div className="mx-auto grid max-w-[70rem] gap-12 px-6 py-16 md:py-24 lg:grid-cols-[1fr_1.1fr] lg:gap-20">
+          <div>
+            <p className="label mb-3 text-signal">Self-host</p>
+            <h2 className="font-display text-4xl leading-tight sm:text-5xl">
+              One image, published to GHCR
+            </h2>
+            <p className="mt-5 leading-relaxed text-stock/60">
+              Multi-arch builds for amd64 and arm64 ship on every push to main,
+              with an SBOM and a signed provenance attestation. Bring a Postgres
+              and a Google OAuth client; compose does the rest. Migrations run
+              on boot, uploads land in a named volume, and no document ever
+              leaves your host.
+            </p>
             <a
               href={REPO_URL}
               target="_blank"
               rel="noopener noreferrer"
-              className="transition hover:text-zinc-300"
+              className="mt-8 inline-block border-b border-stock/30 pb-0.5 font-medium transition-colors hover:border-signal hover:text-signal"
+            >
+              Setup guide on GitHub ↗
+            </a>
+          </div>
+
+          <div className="border border-white/15">
+            <div className="label border-b border-white/15 px-5 py-2.5 text-stock/40">
+              terminal
+            </div>
+            <pre className="overflow-x-auto px-5 py-5 font-mono text-xs leading-loose">
+              <code>
+                <span className="text-stock/35"># pull the published image</span>
+                {"\n"}
+                <span className="text-signal">docker</span> pull
+                ghcr.io/geneticglitch1/xraypdf:latest
+                {"\n\n"}
+                <span className="text-stock/35"># or bring up the whole stack</span>
+                {"\n"}
+                <span className="text-signal">cp</span> .env.example .env{"\n"}
+                <span className="text-signal">docker</span> compose up -d{"\n\n"}
+                <span className="text-stock/35">
+                  # :3000, migrations applied
+                </span>
+              </code>
+            </pre>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </section>
+
+      {/* --------------------------------------------------------------- Close */}
+      <section className="mx-auto max-w-[70rem] px-6 py-20 md:py-28">
+        <div className="max-w-2xl">
+          <h2 className="font-display text-4xl leading-tight sm:text-5xl">
+            Check the next one before you forward it.
+          </h2>
+          <p className="mt-5 leading-relaxed text-ink-soft">
+            Ten megabytes, twelve pages, about a minute. You will find out
+            whether there was anything in there.
+          </p>
+          <button
+            onClick={() => signIn("google")}
+            className="mt-8 bg-ink px-7 py-3.5 font-medium text-stock transition-colors hover:bg-signal"
+          >
+            Sign in with Google
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      </section>
+
+      {/* -------------------------------------------------------------- Footer */}
+      <footer className="border-t border-rule">
+        <div className="label mx-auto flex max-w-[70rem] flex-col gap-3 px-6 py-8 text-ink-faint sm:flex-row sm:items-center sm:justify-between">
+          <span>XRayPDF · Apache-2.0 · {new Date().getFullYear()}</span>
+          <div className="flex gap-6">
+            <a
+              href={REPO_URL}
+              target="_blank"
+              rel="noopener noreferrer"
+              className="transition-colors hover:text-signal"
             >
               GitHub
             </a>
@@ -371,15 +380,15 @@ export default function Home() {
               href={`${REPO_URL}/pkgs/container/xraypdf`}
               target="_blank"
               rel="noopener noreferrer"
-              className="transition hover:text-zinc-300"
+              className="transition-colors hover:text-signal"
             >
-              Container image
+              Image
             </a>
             <a
               href={`${REPO_URL}/issues`}
               target="_blank"
               rel="noopener noreferrer"
-              className="transition hover:text-zinc-300"
+              className="transition-colors hover:text-signal"
             >
               Issues
             </a>