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Option A: typographic editorial tiles + single treated hero image; balance brief topics

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Frontend (the premium baseline):
- The hero is now the ONLY image slot. Soft feed images get an atmospheric
  gradient overlay; no over-reliance on inconsistent RSS image quality.
- Every secondary/lane card is a uniform typographic editorial tile: no
  thumbnails, equal visual weight, a faint topic wordmark watermark, a slim
  sage top accent, consistent source, reason text as the trust signal, visible
  Replace with quiet tuning actions. Fixes the jarring mixed-media row rhythm
  and removes muddy thumbnails entirely.

Backend (composition):
- _select_diverse now balances topics: no more than 2 of one topic while other
  topics have candidates (relaxing source then topic caps only to fill), so the
  daily five stop clustering medical/science items. Candidates now carry s.topic.

Tests updated for the topic-balance contract (79 total).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| = tabled for now
- = Yet to do
-l = Yet to do low priority
- = Yet to do medium priority
-h = yet to do high priority
* = completed item
$ = informational
* Ability to silence some categories temporarily (Maybe a user doesn't even want to see health-related articles, even good ones, so they're not reminded of an ongoing medical issue -- a way to avoid something purposely for a bit) [done: pause topics/flavors in Boundaries]
* Terms to avoid list (To filter even good news that you'd rather not hear about) [done: avoid words/phrases in Boundaries]
| Favorite/save articles [tabled: needs accounts/logins for a larger footprint]
| Soothing background colors/gradients per each category as you scroll. Maybe a user preference. [tabled: revisit deliberately; if done, whisper-quiet translucent tints, not neon]
- I really like the coloring for the metadata highlighting in each card (The grading bubbles)
$ I really like the coloring for the metadata highlighting in each card (The grading bubbles)
* Some articles are behind paywalls.. what can we do? [done: domain-level paywall flag, readable hero, paywalled downweighted out of the daily five, and a "paywall-heavy" advisory source-health flag (Nature/New Scientist). Replace handles any that remain in browse.]
* After an article is read, can we add a refresh button to fetch a replacement for it in the list? [done: "Find one I can read" / Replace swaps in the next readable article]
* I want the top 5 to be tere, but I want the remaining categories to be hidden behing their selections. So the main screen should show just the current highlights, and then the other articles should only be visible when in that category. [done]
* Title headings should be a little larger -- if you select Today, Today should look like a proper heading, bold and beautiful. Switching to Wondow should show "Wonder" all nice and whatnot. [done]
* Title headings should be a little larger -- if you select Today, Today should look like a proper heading, bold and beautiful. Switching to Wondow should show "Wonder" all nice and whatnot. [done]
-l Shomehow include a daily inspirational/motivational/uplifting quote that would change each day.
- Allow ability to forward/share articles