Meadowbyte

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Typefaces

The catalog's own faces. A screen composed into a template is drawn in that template's typefaces.

• InterHeadings: Inter 600, 26px for page title; 20px 600 month title
• InterBody: Inter 400, 16px/1.5; stat counts 16px 600; captions 14px muted; grid dates 14px tabular

Patterns

• sidebar with personal section
• underline tabs (calendar / requests)
• month grid with today pill and arrows
• weekend columns de-emphasised by tint
• summary rail of balance cards
• primary pill request button in header
• floating help chat bubble

States it is designed for

• loading grid skeleton
• no leave booked (plain grid, balances shown)
• pending request (striped amber bar with 'Pending' text)
• approved leave (solid green bar)
• public holiday (flag + name)
• zero balance (request button still available, dialog warns)
• request submitted toast
• request failed with retry
• policy not assigned (empty rail with contact admin)

Who it is for

• employees of distributed companies
• contractors on managed payroll
• people managers checking their own leave

Layout

1. Sidebar (~150px, pale blue-grey): wordmark, Dashboard, 'PERSONAL' group (Personal details, Documents, Time off active, Time tracking, Expenses), user card at bottom with overflow
2. Header: title left; primary pill 'Request time off' and icon buttons (search, apps, help, notifications with dot) right
3. Tabs: Calendar | Requests
4. Calendar card: Today pill, prev/next, month title; 7-column grid (Mon-Sun), 5-6 rows, today in blue disc, weekend cells tinted
5. Summary rail (~220px): 'Your leave summary' + Learn more link; stacked stat cards (icon tile, bold count, caption), first card highlighted
6. Floating help bubble bottom-right
7. Below 1100px rail moves below the calendar; below 640px calendar switches to an agenda list

Palette

Friendly, orderly, reassuring. Plenty of white and a single confident blue.

• canvas#f3f4f8
• surface#ffffff
• text#0f1b33
• muted#5b6478
• border#dde3ec
• weekend#f7f9fc
• primary#0b63d6
• on-primary#ffffff
• highlight#eaf3fe
• leave-approved#1f7a4d
• leave-pending#9a5b00
• focus#0b63d6

Every checked pair, measured again

As vibld’s tokens

The palette on the fifteen colour tokens vibld styles a project with, each text colour on the fill it is read on. Marked tokens are solved from the palette, because no swatch held that role at 4.5:1.

• background
• card
• muted
• primary
• secondary
• accent
• destructive *

Type scale

Display

Inter 600, 26px for page title; 20px 600 month title

Body

Inter 400, 16px/1.5; stat counts 16px 600; captions 14px muted; grid dates 14px tabular

Similar to the observed geometric-humanist sans. Sidebar group label 12px 600 uppercase +0.06em.

Spacing and imagery

Comfortable; 8px base; calendar cells ~64px tall with 8px padding; summary cards 12px padding, 8px gap; radius 12px cards, 8px stat cards, full pill buttons; very light shadow on the calendar and rail cards.

Line icons in tiles; leave shown as coloured bars inside day cells; flag icon for holidays.

Components

• sidebar nav
• user card
• header icon buttons
• primary pill button
• underline tabs
• month grid
• leave bar in day cell
• holiday marker
• summary stat card
• help chat bubble
• request time off dialog

Interactions

• Clicking or dragging across days opens the request dialog prefilled with that range
• Hovering a leave bar shows type, dates and status
• Today pill jumps to the current month
• Arrows animate month change with a 150ms slide
• Stat cards link to the relevant filtered list

Data

• Employee{id, name, country, manager_id}
• LeavePolicy{id, name, days_per_year, carryover_max}
• LeaveRequest{id, employee_id, type (vacation|sick|personal), start_date, end_date, half_day, status (pending|approved|declined|cancelled), note}
• Holiday{country, date, name}
• Balance{employee_id, year, available, used, pending, carried_over}

Guardrails

Experience

• Keep 'Request time off' visible on every tab
• Show balance impact in the request dialog before submission
• Differentiate pending and approved leave with pattern and text, not just colour
• Start weeks on the locale's first day
• List national holidays in the rail and on the grid
• Never let employees edit approved requests without manager re-approval

Accessibility

• Calendar uses a grid role with date labels including leave status
• Leave bars carry text labels on hover and in accessible names
• Tabs follow the tabs pattern
• Dialog date pickers are keyboard operable
• Notification dot has an accessible count
• Help bubble does not cover focused content and can be dismissed

Security

• RLS: employees read their own requests and balances; managers read reports' via a manager_id check; HR admin role for all
• Balance changes computed server-side from approved requests only
• Validate date ranges and half-day flags; prevent overlapping requests
• PII minimised: notes visible only to employee, manager and HR

Build prompt

The baseline every prompt in the catalog assumes, then this design’s own ten sections, from goal to guardrails.

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### How to use these prompts
Paste an entry's build prompt into your coding agent as the first message. Each prompt names its own stack, tokens and acceptance criteria; the rules below apply to all of them and can be prepended once per project.

### Engineering baseline
- TypeScript strict mode, no `any`, small typed components, feature folders, and one source of truth for design tokens (CSS variables consumed by Tailwind).
- Validate every input with a shared zod schema on the client and again on the server or edge function. Never trust client-side checks alone.
- Show loading, empty and error states for every async view. Surface errors in plain language with a retry, and log details to the console in development only.
- Keep secrets out of the bundle. Only publishable keys (for example a Supabase anon key) belong in client code; service-role keys, API keys and webhooks live in server or edge-function environment variables.

### Data and auth baseline (full-stack entries)
- Enable Row Level Security on every table before inserting data. Default-deny, then add owner-scoped policies (`auth.uid() = user_id`) and explicit role checks for admin views.
- Store roles in a separate table checked by a security-definer function, never in a user-editable profile field.
- Upload files to private storage buckets with size and MIME limits, and serve them through signed URLs.
- Rate-limit public endpoints (forms, auth, AI calls) and add a honeypot field or captcha to anonymous forms.
- Take payments through a hosted checkout and verify webhooks by signature. Never handle raw card data.

### Accessibility and UX baseline
- Target WCAG 2.2 AA: 4.5:1 contrast for normal text and 3:1 for large text, input borders, focus rings and meaningful icons or chart lines. Every palette in this catalog lists its verified pairs; re-check with a contrast tool after any colour change.
- Keep body text at 16px or larger with 1.5 line height, nothing below 12px, no light weights under 24px, and uppercase only for short labels.
- Give every interactive element a visible focus ring, full keyboard support, semantic landmarks, labelled form fields, and alt text on meaningful images.
- Respect `prefers-reduced-motion` for every animation. Give drag-and-drop and carousels keyboard and button alternatives.
- Build mobile-first and test at 375px, 768px and 1280px.

### Content guardrails
- Use original copy, fictional sample data and placeholder or licensed imagery. Do not reuse another product's name, logo, screenshots or marketing text.
- Label demo testimonials and metrics as samples. Collect the minimum personal data the feature needs.

### SaaS screen baseline
- Design every screen for its full set of states: first-run empty, loading skeleton, partial data, error with retry, permission-denied, and success feedback. Each entry lists the states its screen needs.
- Keep destructive actions (delete, revoke, downgrade, remove member) behind a confirmation that names the object, and prefer undo over a second dialog where the action is reversible.
- Enforce authorisation on the server for every action a screen exposes. Hiding a button is not access control; check the role again in the API or RLS policy.
- Never show secrets (API keys, tokens) in full after creation. Show them once, then mask them, and offer rotate and revoke.
- Keep the app shell (navigation, workspace switcher, account menu) consistent across screens, and preserve filters, sort and scroll position when the user navigates back.

### Goal
Build **Meadowbyte**, the employee Time off page of a global HR and payroll platform. A month calendar shows the person's leave and public holidays; a summary rail shows balances and counts; 'Request time off' opens a dialog that previews the balance impact.

### Stack
React 18 + TypeScript + Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui (Tabs, Dialog, Calendar, Select, Toast, Tooltip), lucide-react, date-fns, react-hook-form + zod, TanStack Query. Supabase Auth and Postgres.

### Pages & layout
1. **Shell**: sidebar (wordmark, Dashboard, PERSONAL: Personal details, Documents, Time off, Time tracking, Expenses; user card 'Maya Okafor, Brightwell Co.'). Header with title and icon buttons.
2. **/time-off** (this screen): tabs Calendar | Requests; calendar card for November with Today pill and arrows; rail cards: 12 days available, 1 pending request, 3 days upcoming, 25 days per year, 2 days carried over, 9 national holidays (See list).
3. **/time-off/requests**: table of requests with status badges.
4. **Request dialog**: type, date range, half-day toggle, note, balance before/after.
5. Responsive: rail below calendar under 1100px; agenda list under 640px.

### Design system
- Colors: `--canvas: #f3f4f8`, `--surface: #ffffff`, `--text: #0f1b33`, `--muted: #5b6478`, `--border: #dde3ec`, `--weekend: #f7f9fc`, `--primary: #0b63d6`, `--on-primary: #ffffff`, `--highlight: #eaf3fe`, `--leave-approved: #1f7a4d`, `--leave-pending: #9a5b00`, `--focus: #0b63d6`.
- Fonts: Inter (similar to observed). Title 26px/600; month 20px/600; body 16px/1.5; captions 14px; grid dates 14px tabular.
- Spacing: 8px base; card padding 20px; cell padding 8px.
- Radius: cards 12px, stat cards 8px, buttons full pill, today disc full circle.
- Shadows: `0 1px 3px rgba(15,27,51,.06)` on cards.
- Motion: 150ms month slide; dialog 200ms; reduced motion respected.

### Components & interactions
`HrSidebar`, `PageHeader` (RequestButton, IconButtons, NotificationDot), `Tabs`, `MonthGrid` (DayCell with LeaveBar, HolidayMarker, today disc), `SummaryRail` (StatCard), `RequestDialog` (type Select, range Calendar, half-day Switch, note, BalancePreview), `HelpBubble`. Pending bars use diagonal stripes plus a 'Pending' label.

### Data & state
Tables per data model. `balances` maintained by a trigger on approval. Requests of the visible month fetched by range; holidays by country and year. Mock employee in Portugal with one approved week, one pending day and national holidays.

### Accessibility
Day cells expose names like 'Wednesday 12 November, vacation approved'. Stripes plus text for pending. All dialog fields labelled; errors linked. Focus returns to the originating cell after closing the dialog.
Verified contrast: body text on white: #0f1b33 on #ffffff = 17.14:1; muted caption on stat card: #5b6478 on #ffffff = 5.93:1; muted text on canvas: #5b6478 on #f3f4f8 = 5.4:1; primary button label: #ffffff on #0b63d6 = 5.57:1; text on highlighted stat card: #0f1b33 on #eaf3fe = 15.31:1; approved leave bar on white: #1f7a4d on #ffffff = 5.32:1; pending leave text on white: #9a5b00 on #ffffff = 5.43:1; focus ring on weekend tint: #0b63d6 on #f7f9fc = 5.28:1; date text on weekend tint: #5b6478 on #f7f9fc = 5.63:1.

### Security
RLS: `leave_requests` select where employee is self, or manager_id = self for reports, or role = hr_admin; insert only for self; update by self only while pending (cancel), by manager for status. Balances read-only for employees. Overlap and range checks in a constraint or trigger. Notes hidden from peers.

### Performance & SEO
Fetch only the visible month plus one either side. Prefetch next month on arrow hover. Noindex.

### Guardrails
- Invented people, companies and countries' holidays sample
- Do not show colleagues' leave details on this personal page
- Balance math only on the server
- Typed code, clear errors
- Acceptance criteria: (1) selecting a range opens a prefilled request with balance preview; (2) pending and approved leave are distinguishable without colour; (3) holidays appear in grid and rail; (4) RLS enforces employee/manager/HR access; (5) agenda view at 390px.

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