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Danny White 1131e3e2ce fix(ui): default Button variant to default instead of primary (#50160)
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?

Bug fix / design-system alignment for the legacy `Button` from `ui`.

## What is the current behavior?

Omitting `variant` on the legacy `Button` falls back to brand-green
`primary`. That makes accidental greens easy, and it is hard to spot the
real main action on busy pages.

## What is the new behavior?

- Legacy `Button` now defaults to neutral `default`
- Intentional primary CTAs (create, save, submit, marketing CTAs, and
matching `ButtonTooltip` usages) now set `variant="primary"` so their
appearance is unchanged
- Neutral actions that previously relied on the old fallback (cancel,
close, back, dashboard nav, and similar) become grey/white
- Design-system docs updated; regression tests cover the new default

`Button_Shadcn_` is unchanged. It already uses its own CVA default.

This is PR 1 of 2 in a stack. PR 2 drops now-redundant
`variant="default"` props.

## To test

Studio (http://localhost:8082):

- `/sign-in`: Sign in stays green
- Open a project → Database → Tables: New table stays green
- Auth → Users → Invite: Invite user stays green; Cancel / dismiss
controls stay neutral
- Project Settings → General: edit a field so Cancel and Save appear.
Cancel is neutral, Save is green

Design system (http://localhost:3003):

- Components → Button: default demo is neutral; primary demo is green;
featured preview is the default variant

Marketing (optional):

- www header: Start your project stays green; logged-in Dashboard is
neutral

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Style**
- Buttons now default to a neutral style, while primary actions across
Studio, documentation, marketing pages, forms, dialogs, and error states
use prominent primary styling.
- Updated button examples and previews clarify the distinction between
default and primary variants.
  - Event registration now includes a directional arrow icon.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage confirming default button styling and explicit primary
styling behave as expected.
- Updated related test fixtures to use primary styling where
appropriate.
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packages/ui

Supabase's shared React component library. Built on Radix UI primitives and shadcn/ui, styled with Tailwind CSS, and used across all Supabase apps.

Usage

Import from the 'ui' package alias:

import { Badge, Button, Input } from 'ui'

Some of the components have the _Shadcn_ suffix. These components should be preferred, they're in a process of replacing the other ones.

Utilities

// deep object merge (used for themes)
import { clipboard, cn, mergeDeep } from 'ui' // Tailwind class merging (shadcn-ui/cn)

// copy-to-clipboard helper

Styling conventions

  • Tailwind only — no inline styles or CSS modules.
  • Prefer shadcn semantic pairs (bg-card text-card-foreground, bg-muted text-muted-foreground, bg-tertiary text-tertiary-foreground) over hardcoded colors. Legacy utilities such as text-foreground-light and border-default are compatibility aliases only.
  • Control surface roles (bg-field, bg-control-raised, border-control-hover; CSS --control aliases raised) live in build/css/source/semantic.css. Prefer those over inventing fills. Legacy bg-control is still the accent wash alias.
  • Themes set the core --hue (or the split --surface-hue / --primary-hue), --chroma, --surface, --foreground-lightness, and --contrast inputs, plus their --muted-foreground-level and --tertiary-foreground-level hierarchy. Semantic colors are derived from them in OKLCH; --contrast: 1 is the baseline and the supported adjustment range is 0.75 to 1.25.
  • The workspace root owns the actual tailwind.config.js. The file in this package is a stub for IntelliSense only.