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Cascade and inheritance

Styles are applied in this order, from lowest to highest priority:

  1. Scheme defaults.
  2. Shell or component styles.
  3. Selected named theme.
  4. High-contrast or monochrome policy.
  5. Application overrides.

A later layer wins over an earlier layer even if its selector is less specific. Within a layer, specificity and later-rule order apply. Custom properties and supported text styling inherit; opacity is a composited group effect, not an inherited computed property.

High contrast strengthens distinctions; monochrome maps UI chrome colors to grayscale. Explicit per-widget colors can override policy tokens, so application CSS that sets colors directly must respect accessibility preferences itself.