firmware: the console is light, and its six core pages look like one thing

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The device console's core pages (Console, Patterns, Status, Wi-Fi, Knobs, Update) and the shared header, redone for the owner's three asks: light by default, clean and obvious, and no heavier than before.

What changed

• Light by default. Dark is still the toggle in the header and is remembered (pf-theme). The chrome sets data-theme before the first paint. Its injected light palette matches the core pages' :root, so feature pages turn light without being edited.
• One set of parts. Every core page opens with the same base block (tokens, .btn, .chip, .notice, .list, fields, footer). console/README.md has a new section, "The look".
• Home leads with the panel: Now playing with ←/→, On/Sleep, brightness, K1–K4. The device facts are compact rows. The 01–11 page index is now one-line links, still built from featureNav.
• Header: Console, Patterns, then the build's feature pages, then Wi-Fi / Knobs / Update / Status. On a phone it wraps instead of scrolling sideways.
• Monospace stack gains Cascadia Mono and Consolas. On Windows every small label was Courier New.
• Status shows the 3.10.5 crash record when there is one, with Clear. This is new UI on an existing API; say so if it should go.
• Guide: console_demo.py markNav() now finds links inside the grouped nav. The guide's console frame ground is light, and the demo is regenerated.

Size, gzip -9 (before → after)

	before	after
home	10947	9936 (8425 before the edition card and knob controls)
patterns	14835	14470
status	5641	5550
wifi	8511	8509
knobs	2985	2942
update	5885	5852
chrome	9654	9639

The default image is 1,101,872 → 1,099,008 bytes for the first commit; the merge of the latest dev (resident patterns) grows it again.

Second commit, after the owner's look

• Edition card. Edition and firmware version came out of the facts rows and became their own card at the top of the right column (on a phone, right after the control card).
  • It shows the name (or "Patternflow"), the versions in mono, and the feature pages the build carries as chips from featureNav.
  • The update notice sits in it, along with an Editions → / Other editions → button. On the hotspot, the button gives way to a line saying there is no internet, unless the manifest fetch succeeded.
• Knobs.
  • Each slider shows its 0–100 value.
  • Together (remembered): one drag moves all four by the same amount, with each knob clamped.
  • Shuffle: all four at random, with Undo (one level). Undo releases the lanes that sound was driving instead of pinning them.
  • Every multi-knob write is one POST /api/params with p1..p4.
• Arrow keys step patterns (one request in flight; extra presses queue).
• Checked on the bench panel: Shuffle → one request, Undo → one request back to 500×4, Together drag → p1..p4 equal steps, 3× → / 3× ← → back to the start pattern. No page errors. build.sh all and the footprint check pass.

Checks

• console_pages.py check, check_sources.py, check_boundaries.py, console_demo.py --check: pass.
• build.sh all: all five compositions ok.
• check_footprint.py: every edition within tolerance.

On a panel (new bench board, Core build with this branch, flashed over /update)

• Desktop over the LAN, before → after: cold loads stayed about 0.09–0.11 s a page; warm (?v= cached) went from about 17 ms to about 8 ms.
• Driven with Playwright: next/prev, Sleep/On, brightness down and back, K1 drag (POST /api/params), click-to-play on /patterns, the theme toggle both ways. Panel state followed each time, with no page errors.
• Not tried on the panel: a phone on the hotspot (no Wi-Fi NIC here), iOS Safari, and the destructive flows (delete, Wi-Fi save/forget, reboot, firmware upload). Those were exercised against the mock only.

Feature pages (audio-in, midi, clock, weather, mqtt, show) are not edited. Only their headers' chrome stamp changed.

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