MamboColour

MamboColour is Project Mambo's shared theme boundary. Four CSV files define MamboOrche's UI roles and general colours for light and dark schemes; zero-third-party-dependency Rust and Lua APIs provide consistent access without generated application files.

Source code

What it provides

• One MamboOrche family with UI and general-colour layers in light and dark schemes.

• Stable semantic role methods such as fg(), bg_surface(), and error().

• Zero-based get(index) for direct value access and complete ordered enumeration without exposing descriptive CSV names.

• random() for visual accent variety and random_seeded() for repeatable cross-language assignment.

• Colour.hex() and Colour.rgb() values through matching Rust and Lua models.

• A documented key,hex file contract validated by both implementations.

Accent names remain an authoring detail rather than a consumer dependency. Each application maps MamboColour results into its own CSS, terminal, desktop, or widget interface.

Documentation

Current status

The source API transition is active and currently tested on Linux. The Rust crate is at 0.3.0 but is not published, the Lua module is distributed with the source tree, and consumers should pin a reviewed repository commit. Both APIs share zero-based positional lookup, an explicit 32-bit seeded-selection domain, and validation of both schemes as one paired contract. The former mbcolor/mbcolour command, format generator, and separate MamboOutback family are no longer part of the interface.

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