[gothicscientist]

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Bharat asked for the text to be more readable, and for a less gimmicky landing page that brings back the earlier simple "Strata" look.

What changed

• Landing headline: the word-by-word "Ancient DNA, read layer by layer." is replaced by "Strata", the italic subtitle "a research instrument for population genetics", a short stratum rule and a one-sentence lede. The drilled core, the explainer and the build diagram are unchanged.
• Readability, still in EB Garamond:
  • Body text goes from 1.1875 to 1.25 rem, small text from 0.98 to 1.06 rem, and captions from 0.875 to 0.95 rem.
  • Line height goes from 1.5 to 1.6.
  • Secondary greys are darker: ink-2 is now #353e48, and ink-3 is now #4f5963 (7.2:1 on white).
  • The page no longer forces -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased, which made Garamond look thin on macOS.
• Rail: group titles, status labels and step numbers get the same contrast increase, and the status text is slightly larger.
• The smoke test now expects /population genetics/ on the landing page instead of /layer by layer/.

Screenshots

Testing

• tsc --noEmit is clean and pnpm test passes 53 of 53.
• The pnpm test:e2e smoke test passed against a local API on the committed reference build.
• docs/screenshots/* is regenerated, and I checked the landing page at 1440 px and 390 px.

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