Skip to content

EXPERIMENT Dashboard: Aspire brand kit visual refresh#16889

Draft
maddymontaquila wants to merge 9 commits intomainfrom
dashboard-brand-refresh
Draft

EXPERIMENT Dashboard: Aspire brand kit visual refresh#16889
maddymontaquila wants to merge 9 commits intomainfrom
dashboard-brand-refresh

Conversation

@maddymontaquila
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

@maddymontaquila maddymontaquila commented May 8, 2026

Description

Applies an Aspire brand refresh to the dashboard and polishes the dense views so the branch is ready for design review. This update keeps the refresh restrained and reusable: shared tokens live in app.css, while page-specific layout fixes stay scoped to the relevant pages.

Highlights:

  • Brand system: Adds Aspire color, gradient, radius, surface, border, shadow, menu, chart, and selected-state tokens for light and dark themes.
  • Typography: Applies Poppins across dashboard chrome, grid rows, buttons, dialogs, and high-density UI surfaces.
  • Resources page: Refines tabs, grid headers, selected rows, URL pills, action buttons, source/name alignment, graph colors, and details pane behavior.
  • Details panes: Fixes resource and structured-log detail scrolling; simplifies nested accordion/table styling; adds subtle gradient accents to open sections.
  • Traces and trace detail: Improves trace badges, duration contrast, row density, timeline alignment, action menus, and selected/log entry treatments.
  • Structured logs: Aligns severity icons, timestamp/detail text, row content, and split-pane styling.
  • Metrics page: Refreshes the metric selector, splitter, chart shell, Plotly colors, and selected metric state.
  • Global controls: Updates search, select dropdowns, menus, message bars, icon-only buttons, splitters, cards, dialogs, and reconnect/login/error surfaces.

Validation

  • Built src\Aspire.Dashboard\Aspire.Dashboard.csproj successfully with isolated output paths.
  • Reviewed changes in the TestShop playground dashboard across Resources, details panes, traces, structured logs, and metrics.

Checklist

  • Is this feature complete?
    • Yes. Ready to ship.
    • No. Follow-up changes expected.
  • Are you including unit tests for the changes and scenario tests if relevant?
    • Yes
    • No
  • Did you add public API?
    • No
  • Does the change make any security assumptions or guarantees?
    • No

Dark Mode:

dark-resources-table dark-structured-log-details dark-structured-logs dark-trace-detail dark-traces dark-console-logs dark-metrics dark-resources-details dark-resources-graph

Light mode:
light-resources-table
light-structured-log-details
light-structured-logs
light-trace-detail
light-traces
light-console-logs
light-metrics
light-resources-details
light-resources-graph

maddymontaquila and others added 8 commits May 8, 2026 16:46
Re-skin the dashboard with the official Aspire brand identity:

- Add Poppins font (self-hosted woff2, 400-700 weights) as primary typeface
- Define brand token CSS custom property system (palette, gradients, accents)
- Update accent color from #512BD4 to #7455DD (brand primary purple)
- Restyle nav sidebar with brand-tinted surfaces
- Add gradient accent line to header bar
- Update dark theme to use brand-aligned purple-tinted surfaces
- Refresh login, error, and not-found pages with brand shadows/borders
- Update reconnect modal with brand styling
- Modernize data grids: uppercase headers, generous row padding, subtle
  purple hover states, brand-colored row borders
- Add tab bar and search box styling refinements
- Update link/anchor colors to brand purple
- Badge pill styling with rounded corners
- Thin scrollbars with brand accent color
- Refresh assistant/chat panel borders and title typography

All changes are CSS-only (no component logic changes). Both light and
dark themes are updated to align with the brand kit while maintaining
WCAG AA contrast compliance.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Card container treatment for content areas with rounded corners and subtle shadows
- Lavender page background (#F8F7FC) for warmth instead of stark white
- Pill-shaped search boxes, rounded dropdowns and buttons
- Floating pill-style tab bar instead of bordered tabs
- Dark mode glassmorphism on nav/header with backdrop-filter
- Grid rows without harsh lines, subtle transparent borders
- Smooth page transitions with fade-slide-in animation
- Circle hover states on icon buttons within content areas
- Message bar modernization with rounded corners
- Softer, rounded nav active states with fill backgrounds
- Focus rings use brand purple with rounded outlines
- Removed harsh border-left on main content area
- Header uses subtle box-shadow instead of gradient accent line

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Force table header row background to transparent (override --neutral-fill-layer-rest)
- Add gradient background to page heading area (purple-to-magenta)
- Remove grey from notification/message bar, use brand-tinted transparent
- Apply Poppins font to data grid row cells for modern typography

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Force .body-content and .layout-body-container to brand page color in dark mode
- Override --neutral-layer-2 on body-content to prevent Fluent white background
- Force content-layout card + inner table/main to dark surface in dark mode
- Also fix light mode body to use lavender (#F8F7FC) via --neutral-layer-2 override
- Toolbar forced to transparent background

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Give the messagebar container an opaque brand gradient instead of a transparent tint over Fluent dark neutral
- Apply the gradient in both layout-scoped CSS and global CSS for all viewport sizes
- Add explicit table header surface tokens for light and dark themes
- Target grid header th elements, not only td elements
- Keep sortable grid header stealth buttons text-only so they do not render as white pills

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Use a thin bright brand gradient when the messagebar area is empty
- Expand to the full subtle banner only when a messagebar is present
- Keep dark mode notification banners on the opaque brand-navy gradient
- Apply Poppins to desktop sidebar navigation labels

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Make row action buttons transparent at rest instead of dark Fluent pills
- Make resource expand toggles compact and transparent at rest
- Make toolbar filter/settings icon buttons transparent at rest
- Use subtle brand-purple glass hover states in dark and light themes
- Prevent selected/hovered grid row styles from reintroducing dark button backgrounds

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
- Replace the stock reconnect card with a rounded brand-gradient shell
- Add glassy dark/light modal interiors and blurred branded backdrop
- Swap the old ripple animation for a conic gradient spinner
- Use Poppins semibold text and pill-shaped retry button styling
- Remove old global Fluent surface overrides that conflicted with the modal

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
@github-actions
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

github-actions Bot commented May 8, 2026

🚀 Dogfood this PR with:

⚠️ WARNING: Do not do this without first carefully reviewing the code of this PR to satisfy yourself it is safe.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/aspire/main/eng/scripts/get-aspire-cli-pr.sh | bash -s -- 16889

Or

  • Run remotely in PowerShell:
iex "& { $(irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/aspire/main/eng/scripts/get-aspire-cli-pr.ps1) } 16889"

@JamesNK
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

JamesNK commented May 9, 2026

Please add screenshots.

Refine dashboard brand refresh styling across dense views, including resources, traces, structured logs, metrics, detail panes, menus, splitters, and selected states.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
@github-actions
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

github-actions Bot commented May 9, 2026

Re-running the failed jobs in the CI workflow for this pull request because 1 job was identified as retry-safe transient failures in the CI run attempt.
GitHub was asked to rerun all failed jobs for that attempt, and the rerun is being tracked in the rerun attempt.
The job links below point to the failed attempt jobs that matched the retry-safe transient failure rules.

@github-actions
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

github-actions Bot commented May 9, 2026

🎬 CLI E2E Test Recordings — 77 recordings uploaded (commit f7cc5b9)

View all recordings
Status Test Recording
AddPackageInteractiveWhileAppHostRunningDetached ▶️ View Recording
AddPackageWhileAppHostRunningDetached ▶️ View Recording
AgentCommands_AllHelpOutputs_AreCorrect ▶️ View Recording
AgentInitCommand_DefaultSelection_InstallsSkillOnly ▶️ View Recording
AgentInitCommand_MigratesDeprecatedConfig ▶️ View Recording
AspireAddPackageVersionToDirectoryPackagesProps ▶️ View Recording
AspireInitSingleFileAppHostRunsViaDotnetRunAppHost ▶️ View Recording
AspireUpdateRemovesAppHostPackageVersionFromDirectoryPackagesProps ▶️ View Recording
Banner_DisplayedOnFirstRun ▶️ View Recording
Banner_DisplayedWithExplicitFlag ▶️ View Recording
Banner_NotDisplayedWithNoLogoFlag ▶️ View Recording
CertificatesClean_RemovesCertificates ▶️ View Recording
CertificatesTrust_WithNoCert_CreatesAndTrustsCertificate ▶️ View Recording
CertificatesTrust_WithUntrustedCert_TrustsCertificate ▶️ View Recording
ConfigSetGet_CreatesNestedJsonFormat ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunAspireStarterProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunAspireStarterProjectWithBundle ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunEmptyAppHostProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunJavaEmptyAppHostProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunJsReactProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunPythonReactProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunTypeScriptEmptyAppHostProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateAndRunTypeScriptStarterProject ▶️ View Recording
CreateJavaAppHostWithViteApp ▶️ View Recording
CreateTypeScriptAppHostWithViteApp_UsesConfiguredToolchain ▶️ View Recording
DashboardRunWithOtelTracesReturnsNoTraces ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sBasicApiService ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithGarnet ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithMongoDB ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithMySql ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithPostgres ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithRabbitMQ ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithRedis ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithSqlServer ▶️ View Recording
DeployK8sWithValkey ▶️ View Recording
DeployTypeScriptAppToKubernetes ▶️ View Recording
DescribeCommandResolvesReplicaNames ▶️ View Recording
DescribeCommandShowsRunningResources ▶️ View Recording
DetachFormatJsonProducesValidJson ▶️ View Recording
DetachFormatJsonProducesValidJsonWhenRestartingExistingInstance ▶️ View Recording
DoListStepsShowsPipelineSteps ▶️ View Recording
DocsCommand_RendersInteractiveMarkdownFromLocalSource ▶️ View Recording
DoctorCommand_DetectsDeprecatedAgentConfig ▶️ View Recording
DoctorCommand_TypeScriptAppHostReportsMissingConfiguredToolchain ▶️ View Recording
DoctorCommand_WithSslCertDir_ShowsTrusted ▶️ View Recording
DoctorCommand_WithoutSslCertDir_ShowsPartiallyTrusted ▶️ View Recording
GlobalMigration_HandlesCommentsAndTrailingCommas ▶️ View Recording
GlobalMigration_HandlesMalformedLegacyJson ▶️ View Recording
GlobalMigration_PreservesAllValueTypes ▶️ View Recording
GlobalMigration_SkipsWhenNewConfigExists ▶️ View Recording
GlobalSettings_MigratedFromLegacyFormat ▶️ View Recording
InitTypeScriptAppHost_AugmentsExistingViteRepoAtRoot ▶️ View Recording
InteractiveCSharpInitCreatesExpectedFiles ▶️ View Recording
InvalidAppHostPathWithComments_IsHealedOnRun ▶️ View Recording
LatestCliCanStartStableChannelAppHost ▶️ View Recording
LatestCliCanStartStableChannelTypeScriptAppHost ▶️ View Recording
LegacySettingsMigration_AdjustsRelativeAppHostPath ▶️ View Recording
LogsCommandShowsResourceLogs ▶️ View Recording
OtelLogsReturnsStructuredLogsFromStarterAppCore ▶️ View Recording
PsCommandListsRunningAppHost ▶️ View Recording
PsFormatJsonOutputsOnlyJsonToStdout ▶️ View Recording
PublishWithConfigureEnvFileUpdatesEnvOutput ▶️ View Recording
PublishWithDockerComposeServiceCallbackSucceeds ▶️ View Recording
PublishWithoutOutputPathUsesAppHostDirectoryDefault ▶️ View Recording
RestoreGeneratesSdkFiles ▶️ View Recording
RestoreGeneratesSdkFiles_WithConfiguredToolchain ▶️ View Recording
RestoreRefreshesGeneratedSdkAfterAddingIntegration ▶️ View Recording
RestoreSupportsConfigOnlyHelperPackageAndCrossPackageTypes ▶️ View Recording
RunFromParentDirectory_UsesExistingConfigNearAppHost ▶️ View Recording
SecretCrudOnDotNetAppHost ▶️ View Recording
SecretCrudOnTypeScriptAppHost ▶️ View Recording
StagingChannel_ConfigureAndVerifySettings_ThenSwitchChannels ▶️ View Recording
StartAndWaitForTypeScriptSqlServerAppHostWithNativeAssets ▶️ View Recording
StopAllAppHostsFromAppHostDirectory ▶️ View Recording
StopNonInteractiveSingleAppHost ▶️ View Recording
StopWithNoRunningAppHostExitsSuccessfully ▶️ View Recording
UnAwaitedChainsCompileWithAutoResolvePromises ▶️ View Recording

📹 Recordings uploaded automatically from CI run #25607414491

@maddymontaquila maddymontaquila changed the title Dashboard: Aspire brand kit visual refresh EXPERIMENT Dashboard: Aspire brand kit visual refresh May 10, 2026
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants