/* Step Up AVL — "The Broadsheet", article layer.
 *
 * Companion to assets/broadsheet.css (which must load first: this file uses its
 * tokens and its shared shell — trust strip, compact header, footer).
 * Spec: _docs/design/broadsheet-2026-07/README.md, sections 8-10.
 *
 * Charcoal reading mode: a full-bleed charcoal surround behind a 780px cream
 * sheet. Every component here is scoped to .article-band or .sheet so it can
 * never leak into the paper pages.
 */

/* ---------------------------------------------------- surround and sheet */

.article-band {
  width: 100vw;
  margin-left: calc(50% - 50vw);
  background: var(--charcoal);
  padding: 46px 24px 60px;
}

.sheet {
  max-width: 780px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  background: var(--paper);
  color: var(--ink);
  padding: 48px 56px 52px;
  box-shadow: 0 34px 80px -34px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------- article head */

.art-kicker {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.16em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--avl-green);
  margin: 0 0 14px;
}

.sheet h1 {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 46px;
  line-height: 1.05;
  letter-spacing: -0.015em;
  color: var(--ink);
  margin: 0 0 18px;
}
.sheet h1 em {
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 500;
  color: var(--article-red);
}
/* The 46px title wraps on its own. Any authored <br> was removed at conversion
 * time rather than hidden here: hiding it also swallowed the space it stood for,
 * which ran the red accent word into the next word. */

.standfirst {
  font-size: 20px;
  line-height: 1.5;
  font-style: italic;
  color: var(--body-text);
  margin: 0 0 20px;
}
.standfirst strong { font-weight: 500; color: var(--ink); }

.byline {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: baseline;
  gap: 16px;
  border-top: 1px solid var(--ink);
  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--hairline);
  padding: 9px 0;
  margin-bottom: 28px;
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 12px;
  color: var(--text-tertiary);
}
.byline .who { font-weight: 600; }
.byline .when {
  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------- body */

.art-body {
  font-size: 17.5px;
  line-height: 1.65;
  color: var(--body-text);
}
.art-body p { margin: 0 0 16px; }
.art-body strong, .art-body b { font-weight: 600; color: var(--ink); }
.art-body em, .art-body i { font-style: italic; }
.art-body a { font-weight: 600; }

/* Body list: a real <ol>/<ul> in running copy, for the case where a rule has
 * enumerated conditions and "First... Second... Third..." inside one sentence
 * is the thing making it hard to read.
 *
 * OPT-IN BY CLASS, and that is deliberate, not fussiness. Two served articles
 * (what-would-actually-fix-snap, who-we-call-homeless) already carry a bare
 * <ol> in .art-body and have been rendering at browser defaults the whole time.
 * A bare `.art-body ol` rule here would silently restyle both of them, which is
 * the 2026-07-24 class of defect exactly: a shared-CSS fix that also lands
 * somewhere nobody was looking. Add class="body-list" to opt a list in.
 *
 * The marker takes --article-red (5.34:1 on paper). ::marker accepts color and
 * font-* only; anything else has to go on the <li>. */
.art-body .body-list {
  margin: 0 0 16px;
  padding-left: 1.6rem;
}
.art-body .body-list li { margin: 0 0 8px; padding-left: 0.15rem; }
.art-body .body-list li:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
.art-body .body-list li::marker { color: var(--article-red); font-weight: 700; }

/* Red serif drop cap: opens each major section.
 *
 * ONE per section, on the section's first text. The rule is strictly
 * "the element IMMEDIATELY AFTER the head block, or the deck inside it".
 * Adjacency is the whole trick: sections are flat sibling runs, not containers,
 * so there is no CSS way to say "the first paragraph belonging to this section"
 * without it leaking into the next one. Adjacency is exact and cannot leak.
 *
 * The head block is one of `div.act` / `div.act-head` / `h2.act-head`, and the
 * thing after it is one of:
 *
 *   .deck / .act-sub    the section's own standfirst. It IS the first text, so
 *                       it takes the cap and the body paragraph does not.
 *   p                   plain body paragraph
 *   .body-copy > p      body paragraph wrapped in a block
 *
 * A section whose first element is none of these (a callout, a chart, a
 * takeaway) gets no cap, which is correct: it has no opening prose.
 *
 * Driven from CSS on purpose. This was a hand-written `<span class="dropcap">`
 * per paragraph, which is exactly why only 10 of 41 articles had a full set:
 * an optional manual step drifts. Do not reintroduce the span; there is nothing
 * to remember now, and `.dropcap` survives only for one-off use.
 *
 * The heading itself is written four ways, so the list covers all of them:
 * `div.act` and `div.act-head` are head BLOCKS (the body follows the block),
 * while `h2.act-head` and a bare `h2` sit INSIDE section.act (the body follows
 * the h2). who-pays-for-snap-now is the bare-h2 case; do not drop it.
 * Do not switch any `.body-copy` selector to a descendant of the head's
 * section either: it-wasnt-the-asylums has no section wrapper at all.
 */
.dropcap,
.act > .deck:first-of-type::first-letter,
div.act:not(:has(> .deck)) + p::first-letter,
div.act:not(:has(> .deck)) + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter,
.act > h2 + p::first-letter,
.act > h2 + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter,
div.act-head + p::first-letter,
div.act-head + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter {
  float: left;
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 56px;
  line-height: 0.82;
  color: var(--article-red);
  padding: 5px 8px 0 0;
}

/* Standalone italic aside. */
.art-aside {
  font-style: italic;
  color: var(--text-tertiary);
}

/* Pull quote: the line the section turns on. Serif, bold, italic. */
.pull {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 24px;
  line-height: 1.3;
  color: var(--ink);
  margin: 18px 0 4px;
}

/* -------------------------------------------------------------- crossheads */

/* Inline red kicker beside a serif heading (essay + data pieces). */
.crosshead {
  display: flex;
  align-items: baseline;
  gap: 14px;
  margin: 30px 0 14px;
}
.crosshead .ck {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.18em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--article-red);
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.crosshead h2 {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-size: 27px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
  color: var(--ink);
  margin: 0;
}

/* Act head (history / multi-act pieces): double rule, stacked label. */
.act {
  border-top: 3px double var(--ink);
  margin-top: 32px;
  padding-top: 20px;
}
/* Written as a div in most articles, a span in others; margin-bottom is dropped
 * on an inline box, so state the block rather than depending on the tag. */
.act .al {
  display: block;
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 0.3em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--article-red);
  margin-bottom: 6px;
}
/* line-height is NOT optional here. Without it this heading inherits .art-body's
 * 1.65 body leading (30px -> 49.5px), which reads as a loose, floating section
 * head: ~15px of extra half-leading split above and below every act title. The
 * legacy layer never showed the bug because those articles carry their own
 * `.act-head { line-height: 1.12 }` inline, so the omission only ever hit the
 * six articles built on the current shell. 1.15 is the value
 * article-legacy.css sets for the same 30px component (.act-head .act-title). */
.act h2 {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-size: 30px;
  font-weight: 600;
  line-height: 1.15;
  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
  color: var(--ink);
  margin: 0 0 12px;
}
.act h2 em { font-style: italic; color: var(--article-red); }
.act .deck { margin: 0 0 8px; color: var(--text-tertiary); }

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ gold callout */

.callout {
  background: var(--callout-tint);
  border-left: 4px solid #B58A2A;
  padding: 20px 24px 22px;
  margin: 0 0 26px;
}
.callout > p { margin: 0 0 14px; }
.callout > p:last-child { margin: 0; }
.callout-eyebrow {
  display: inline-block;
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 10.5px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.22em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--gold-text);  /* #A87D22 read at 3.1:1 on the tint */
  border: 1px solid #C9A94E;
  padding: 4px 10px;
  margin-bottom: 14px;
  max-width: 100%;
  overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
/* Long callout headers (a full sentence, not a short tag): the bordered pill
   only works for short labels. For a long one, drop the box and render it as a
   plain uppercase kicker that wraps naturally across the full width. */
.callout-eyebrow.long {
  display: block;
  border: 0;
  padding: 0;
  max-width: 100%;
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
  line-height: 1.5;
  margin-bottom: 12px;
}
.callout .lead {
  display: block;   /* reset the display:grid leaking in from broadsheet.css bare .lead */
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 21px;
  line-height: 1.32;
  color: var(--ink);
}
.author-note {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 17px;
  line-height: 1.62;
  color: var(--ink);
  border-left: 3px solid #C9A94E;
  padding: 2px 0 2px 18px;
  margin: 0 0 28px;
}
.author-note strong { font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; }
/* Series table of contents inside a callout. Superseded by .series below; kept
 * because it is a generic component and nothing about it is series-specific. */
.callout .toc { font-size: 16px; line-height: 2; }
.callout .here {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 10px;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--gold-text);  /* #A87D22 read at 3.1:1 on the tint */
  border: 1px solid #C9A94E;
  padding: 2px 7px;
  margin-left: 6px;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ series strip */

/* The "where this sits in the series" panel. Lives here, once, rather than
 * inline in each article: it had drifted into three different things across the
 * five SNAP parts. Two carried a pre-Broadsheet copy on the warm tokens, one
 * carried the Broadsheet copy, and two more rendered the same list as a bare
 * `ol.toc` inside the opening callout. Scoped to .article-band, and only a page
 * that carries `.series` can match it, so it reaches nothing else.
 *
 * Every token here is one that no article shadows. Articles redefine --ink,
 * --rule and --paper in their own inline :root (see the --ink-deep note in
 * broadsheet.css), so a panel written against those renders a different color
 * on every page. --ink-deep, --hairline and --panel-bg resolve to the same
 * value everywhere, which is the whole point of moving it here. */
.article-band .series {
  border: 1px solid var(--hairline);
  background: var(--panel-bg);
  padding: 1rem 1.2rem 1.1rem;
  margin: 0 0 2.4rem;
}
.article-band .series .label {
  display: block;
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 0.72rem;
  line-height: 1.5;   /* explicit: .art-body and .prologue inherit different ones */
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--avl-green);
}
.article-band .series ol { margin: 0.6rem 0 0; padding-left: 1.25rem; }
.article-band .series li {
  font-size: 15.5px;
  line-height: 1.5;
  margin: 0.3rem 0;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
}
.article-band .series li a { font-weight: 600; }
.article-band .series li.here { color: var(--ink-deep); font-weight: 600; }
.article-band .series .here-tag {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 0.62rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--article-red);
  margin-left: 0.4rem;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------- stat strip */

.statstrip {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr;
  border-top: 1px solid var(--ink);
  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--ink);
  margin: 26px 0;
}
.statstrip .st { padding: 18px 16px 16px; border-right: 1px solid var(--panel-rule); }
.statstrip .st:last-child { border-right: 0; }
.statstrip .n {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 34px;
  line-height: 1;
  color: var(--article-red);
}
.statstrip .c {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11.5px;
  line-height: 1.45;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
  margin-top: 8px;
}
.statstrip .src {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 10px;
  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
  margin-top: 8px;
  /* No opacity here. --text-secondary is already the soft one: it scores 5.05:1 on
     paper, comfortably AA. Fading it a second time took the same text to 3.74:1 and
     put 112 source lines across 18 articles below the 4.5:1 bar for 10px text. Nobody
     picked 3.74; it is what two independent softenings multiply out to. If this needs
     to recede further, move the TOKEN and measure it, do not stack a second fade.
     Measured 2026-07-26; contrast-check could not see it before that date because any
     ancestor opacity was reported as INDETERMINATE rather than composited. */
}
.stat-note {
  font-size: 15px;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
  margin: -14px 0 26px;
}

/* --------------------------------------------------------------- timeline */

.tl-row {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 118px 1fr;
  gap: 18px;
  padding: 18px 0;
  border-top: 1px solid var(--panel-rule);
}
.tl-date {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 18px;
  line-height: 1.25;
  color: var(--deep-green);
}
.tl-mini {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 9px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #9C7714;
  margin-top: 4px;
}
.tl-row h3 { font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0 0 7px; color: var(--ink); }
.tl-row p { font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0; }

/* -------------------------------------------------- "The point" / takeaway */

.point {
  background: var(--spruce);
  color: #F1EBDD;
  padding: 36px 40px 38px;
  margin: 34px 0 30px;
}
.point-eyebrow {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 16px;
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 12px;
  letter-spacing: 0.3em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #DCE5DF;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.point-eyebrow::after { content: ""; flex: 1; height: 1px; background: #4A6156; }
.point h2 {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 38px;
  line-height: 1.12;
  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
  margin: 0 0 22px;
  color: #F1EBDD;
}
.point h2 em { font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; color: var(--gold); }
.point h2 .plain { font-style: italic; }
.point p { font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0 0 18px; color: #EDE7D8; }
.point p:last-child { margin: 0; }

/* --------------------------------------------------- about / sources panel */

.notebox {
  background: var(--panel-bg);
  border-top: 3px solid var(--avl-green);
  padding: 16px 20px;
  margin: 0 0 22px;
}
.notebox h2 {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--avl-green);
  margin: 0 0 7px;
}
.notebox p { font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 1.6; color: var(--body-text); margin: 0 0 8px; }
.notebox p:last-child { margin: 0; color: var(--text-secondary); }
.notebox a { font-weight: 600; }

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------- CTA */

.su-cta {
  display: block;
  background: var(--charcoal);
  border-top: 3px solid var(--article-red);
  padding: 34px 26px 32px;
  margin: 0 0 26px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
}
.su-cta .su-tag {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 40px;
  line-height: 1.1;
  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
  color: var(--article-red-on-dark);
  margin: 0 0 14px;
}
.su-cta .su-sub {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-size: 17.5px;
  line-height: 1.55;
  color: var(--cta-cream);
  max-width: 48ch;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
.su-cta .su-arr { color: var(--article-red-on-dark); }

/* ------------------------------------------------------- research + next */

.su-research {
  border-top: 1px solid var(--hairline);
  padding: 16px 0 18px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  gap: 16px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.su-research .cap {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11.5px;
  color: var(--text-secondary);
  margin: 0;
}

.su-readnext { border-top: 1px solid var(--hairline); padding-top: 16px; }
.su-readnext-h {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--text-tertiary);
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}
.su-readnext ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
.su-readnext li { font-size: 16px; line-height: 2; font-weight: 600; }

/* ------------------------------------------------------------- responsive */

@media (max-width: 760px) {
  /* Full-bleed sheet on mobile: the charcoal surround's bottom stub reads as a
   * stray dark bar between the cream sheet and the footer, and the footer's
   * 48px top margin shows a paper strip below it. Drop both so the cream sheet
   * meets the green footer cleanly. Desktop keeps its framed surround. */
  .article-band { padding: 24px 0 0; }
  .article-band + .site-foot { margin-top: 0; }
  /* No trailing paper band: the sheet's cream ends where the CTA/research block
   * does, and the green footer's own top padding gives the separation. */
  .sheet { padding: 32px 20px 0; max-width: none; }
  .su-research { padding-bottom: 0; }
  /* When the CTA is the last block (no research/series row after it), its
   * bottom margin would leave a paper band; drop it so the dark CTA meets the
   * green footer directly. */
  .su-cta:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
  .sheet h1 { font-size: 33px; }
  /* Mobile body copy runs bigger, looser, and in the darkest ink: a phone is
   * held closer and read in worse light. Newsreader is pinned to its text
   * optical size so the strokes stay sturdy instead of thinning out the way the
   * variable font's larger opsz does. Mirrored in article-legacy.css. */
  .standfirst { font-size: 18px; color: var(--ink-deep); }
  .art-body {
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 1.7;
    color: var(--ink-deep);
    font-optical-sizing: none;
    font-variation-settings: 'opsz' 16;
  }
  /* Same selector list as the desktop drop-cap rule above; both move together. */
  .dropcap,
  .act > .deck:first-of-type::first-letter,
  div.act:not(:has(> .deck)) + p::first-letter,
  div.act:not(:has(> .deck)) + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter,
  .act > h2 + p::first-letter,
  .act > h2 + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter,
  div.act-head + p::first-letter,
  div.act-head + .body-copy > p:first-child::first-letter { font-size: 48px; }
  .pull { font-size: 20px; }
  .callout .lead { font-size: 18px; }
  .crosshead { flex-direction: column; align-items: flex-start; gap: 6px; }
  .crosshead h2 { font-size: 24px; }
  .act h2 { font-size: 26px; }
  /* Mobile legibility floor for the act-head kicker: 0.3em tracking at 11px is
   * hard to read small. The .act-num and section.act > .label shapes take the
   * same floor from article-legacy.css, which has to carry its own copy because
   * it loads last and its desktop rules outrank anything scoped this loosely.
   * All three must move together or the corpus splits at this breakpoint. */
  .act > .al { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; }
  .statstrip { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
  .statstrip .st { border-right: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--panel-rule); }
  .statstrip .st:last-child { border-bottom: 0; }
  .tl-row { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 6px; }

  /* Dark blocks go full-bleed on mobile. */
  .point, .su-cta {
    margin-left: -20px;
    margin-right: -20px;
    border-radius: 0;
  }
  .point { padding: 28px 20px 30px; }
  .point h2 { font-size: 28px; }
  .su-cta .su-tag { font-size: 32px; }
  /* Mobile legibility floor for the panel small print.
   *
   * article-legacy.css has carried this since the conversion, on its own class
   * names: `.stat .sl` at 12.5px, `.stat .src` at 11px, `.sheet > footer` and
   * its paragraphs at 14.5px. The current shell never got its copy, so the four
   * articles built on it served 11.5px captions, 10px sources and a 13.5px
   * Sources box on a phone while the other 43 got the floor. Found 2026-07-25 by
   * measuring at 375px; nothing at 1280px could have shown it.
   *
   * Same values, so this converges rather than introducing a second standard.
   * `.notebox.about-series p` is deliberately NOT covered: it is the series
   * hubs' About panel, sized 15px by its own rule further down, and it wins on
   * specificity either way. */
  .statstrip .c { font-size: 12.5px; }
  .statstrip .src { font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.04em; }
  .notebox,
  .notebox p { font-size: 14.5px; }
  /* The Sources label was left out of that floor when it was written, so the four
   * current-shell articles held 11px on a phone while the 26 legacy ones bumped to
   * 12px. Measured 2026-07-25 by the component sweep; same values as the legacy
   * rule, so this converges. */
  .notebox h2 { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; }
}

/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- print */

@media print {
  .trust, .masthead, .navrule-thin, .site-foot,
  .su-cta, .su-research, .su-readnext { display: none; }
  .article-band { width: auto; margin: 0; background: #fff; padding: 0; }
  .sheet { max-width: none; box-shadow: none; padding: 0; }
  .point, .callout, .statstrip, .notebox {
    -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;
    print-color-adjust: exact;
  }
}

/* ------------------------------------------------ series landing pages */

/* "Start here" collections (DELTA-v12). Same charcoal shell as an article:
 * a numbered reading path in place of body copy. */

/* The series callout has no .art-body ancestor to inherit its type from. */
.series-callout p {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-size: 16.5px;
  line-height: 1.6;
  color: var(--body-text);
}
.series-callout p.pull { font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.32; color: var(--ink); }
.series-callout p:last-child { margin: 0; }

/* The series "About" panel reads at 15px; an article's Sources box stays 13.5px
   with its muted last line, so this must not be a bare .notebox rule. */
.notebox.about-series p { font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; color: var(--body-text); }

.reading-path { border-top: 3px double var(--ink); padding-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 30px; }
.path-row {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 74px 1fr;
  gap: 20px;
  padding: 22px 0;
  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--panel-rule);
  color: var(--ink);
}
.path-row:last-child { border-bottom: 0; }
.path-row { position: relative; }
.path-row:hover { background: var(--card-bg); }
/* The whole row is clickable, but the row itself is not an <a>: a gloss may
   carry its own source link, and anchors cannot nest. */
.path-read::after { content: ""; position: absolute; inset: 0; }
.path-row p a { position: relative; z-index: 1; }
.path-num {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-size: 52px;
  line-height: 0.9;
  color: var(--article-red);
}
.path-head { display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: 12px; flex-wrap: wrap; }
.path-head h3 {
  font-family: var(--serif);
  font-size: 24px;
  font-weight: 600;
  margin: 0;
  color: var(--ink);
}
.path-chip {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 10px;
  font-weight: 600;
  letter-spacing: 0.12em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: var(--gold-text);  /* #A87D22 read at 3.1:1 on the tint */
  border: 1px solid #C9A94E;
  padding: 2px 8px;
}
.path-row p { font-size: 15.5px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--text-secondary); margin: 6px 0; }
.path-read {
  font-family: var(--sans);
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: 600;
  color: var(--avl-green);
}

.series-foot {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  gap: 16px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  border-top: 1px solid var(--hairline);
  padding-top: 16px;
}
.series-foot .cap { font-family: var(--sans); font-size: 13px; color: var(--text-secondary); margin: 0; }

@media (max-width: 760px) {
  .path-row { grid-template-columns: 52px 1fr; gap: 14px; }
  .path-num { font-size: 40px; }
  .path-head h3 { font-size: 21px; }
}

/* ------------------------------------------------- mobile legibility floor */

/* The article kickers, stat captions, and sources footer sit at 10-11.5px. They
 * read on a 780px sheet and go faint on a phone. */
@media (max-width: 760px) {
  .art-kicker { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; }
  .byline { font-size: 12.5px; }
  .su-readnext-h { font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.1em; }
  .su-research .cap { font-size: 12.5px; }
}