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Adds a tree-shakeable colorLegendItems() presentation strategy for categorical colorLegend() entries while preserving the existing default legend layout and API.

colorLegend({
  placement: 'bottom',
  items: colorLegendItems({
    justify: 'center',
    gap: 20,
    rowGap: 10,
    indicator: {
      shape: (series) => (series === 'Revenue' ? 'line-dot' : 'square'),
    },
    label: {
      fontSize: 14,
      fill: (_series, { color }) => color,
    },
  }),
})

Items receive resolved color-scale data, so consumers do not duplicate labels or colors. Compact start/center layouts retain built-in measurement and wrapping, now using the chart host's text measurer. The built-in indicators cover dot, square, line, and outlined line-dot presentations, with custom scene rendering available as an escape hatch. This replaces Rewardo's custom legend while keeping bottom placement, whole-legend centering, 14 px vertically aligned colored labels, configurable spacing, and mixed bar/pie/line symbols.

The default categorical legend fixture is 4.35 KiB minified / 1.65 KiB gzip. Opting into configured items produces 7.54 KiB / 2.77 KiB, an incremental 1.12 KiB gzip and below the fixture's 1.15 KiB cap. Existing full-chart fixtures gain only 5–7 gzip bytes from carrying the layout measurer in legend context. Reproduce with pnpm bundle:check; no dependency was added.

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Fixes #95

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable categorical color legend items with wrapping, spacing, alignment, typography, label styling, and custom formatting.
    • Added built-in dot, square, line, and line-dot indicators, plus custom indicator renderers.
    • Legend layouts now measure labels using the chart host’s text measurement settings.
    • Added accessibility improvements with visually hidden browser legend labels.
    • Added a dedicated helper for reusable categorical legend item presentations.
  • Documentation

    • Added guides and reference documentation for categorical legend item configuration.

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This change adds configurable, tree-shakeable categorical legend item presentation. It supports measured wrapping, spacing, typography, label paint, built-in indicator shapes, custom indicator renderers, public exports, conformance examples, tests, and bundle-size tracking.

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Categorical legend presentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Legend API and measured rendering
packages/charts-core/src/legend-static.ts, packages/charts-core/src/legend-layout-internal.ts, packages/charts-core/src/scene.ts, packages/charts-core/src/types.ts, packages/charts-core/src/legend.ts, packages/charts-core/src/index.ts, packages/charts-core/src/universal.ts, packages/charts-core/src/universal-types.ts, scripts/public-callback-contract.mjs
Adds typed colorLegendItems() options, host-measured flow layout, configurable indicators and labels, custom render callbacks, layout propagation, and public exports.
Legend layout and rendering validation
packages/charts-core/src/legend-layout-internal.test.ts, packages/charts-core/src/legend-static.test.ts, benchmarks/conformance/cases/70-composed-chart/tanstack.test.ts
Tests wrapping, centering, measurement, default rendering, indicator shapes, custom callbacks, mixed marks, type inference, invalid shapes, and mark-specific selection.
Examples and API documentation
benchmarks/conformance/cases/70-composed-chart/*, benchmarks/conformance/cases/168-shadcn-pie-legend/*, docs/guides/legends-and-color.md, docs/reference/scales-guides-and-color.md, docs/reference/types.md, packages/charts-core/docs/..., benchmarks/conformance/catalog-index.json
Updates chart examples and documentation for colorLegendItems(), categorical presentation options, accessible browser legends, and the mixed-mark conformance feature.
Release and bundle validation
.changeset/soft-legends-flow.md, API-FRICTION.md, benchmarks/entries/*, scripts/measure-bundles.mjs, benchmarks/bundle-size/*, benchmarks/comparison/bundle-baseline.json, benchmarks/conformance/previews/manifest.json, docs/comparison.md, packages/charts-core/docs/comparison.md
Adds release and friction records, separates default and item-presentation bundle measurements, updates bundle boundaries and baselines, and refreshes generated comparison metadata.

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The PR adds opt-in categorical legend presentation while preserving the existing default layout. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up for the bounded risk that the updated pie example may lose an accessible browser name and that one generated documentation copy may be overwritten during synchronization.

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benchmarks/conformance/cases/168-shadcn-pie-legend/example.tsx (1)

146-150: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve accessible browser names.

colorLegend() places the browser labels in an aria-hidden SVG group. RendererChart exposes only Pie Chart - Legend, and Example has no browser-name list, labels, or table. Retain an accessible browser list after removing the footer.

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In `@benchmarks/conformance/cases/168-shadcn-pie-legend/example.tsx` around lines
146 - 150, Update Example and the chart rendering around colorLegend() so the
legend’s color labels remain exposed through an accessible browser-name list
after the footer is removed. Ensure RendererChart retains the “Pie Chart -
Legend” name while adding the corresponding labels in non-hidden accessible
markup, rather than relying on the aria-hidden SVG group.
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In `@benchmarks/bundle-size/README.md`:
- Around line 95-99: Update the README description for the static categorical
legend item fixture to use the public indicator shape name “line-dot” instead of
“line-point,” matching the terminology used by the fixture entry and legend
static tests.

In `@packages/charts-core/docs/guides/legends-and-color.md`:
- Line 108: Move the documentation changes from
packages/charts-core/docs/guides/legends-and-color.md lines 108-108,
packages/charts-core/docs/reference/scales-guides-and-color.md lines 593-603,
and packages/charts-core/docs/reference/types.md lines 491-494 into the
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not directly edit the generated package copies, then run pnpm docs:sync.

In `@packages/charts-core/src/legend-static.ts`:
- Line 217: Update the fontWeight handling near labelOptions?.fontWeight to
normalize non-finite values, including NaN, to undefined before passing the
value to both estimateTextWidth() and the rendered SceneLabel, while preserving
valid finite font weights.

---

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In `@benchmarks/conformance/cases/168-shadcn-pie-legend/example.tsx`:
- Around line 146-150: Update Example and the chart rendering around
colorLegend() so the legend’s color labels remain exposed through an accessible
browser-name list after the footer is removed. Ensure RendererChart retains the
“Pie Chart - Legend” name while adding the corresponding labels in non-hidden
accessible markup, rather than relying on the aria-hidden SVG group.
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Addressed the outside-diff accessibility finding in 2ddcf66 as well: the pie catalog example now retains the browser names in a visually hidden labelled list while the SVG legend remains decorative.

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588-617: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Regenerate the package documentation instead of editing it directly.

Keep the source changes in docs/reference/scales-guides-and-color.md. Remove the direct edits from this generated copy, then run pnpm docs:sync.

As per coding guidelines, author public documentation only in the root docs/ tree and do not directly edit packages/charts-core/docs because those copies are generated by pnpm docs:sync.

Also applies to: 655-660, 677-697

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In `@packages/charts-core/src/legend-static.ts`:
- Around line 109-115: Update the legend positioning calculation near
indicatorBounds to derive the first-row center using Math.max(fontSize,
indicatorHeight) / 2 while retaining the existing 10-pixel inset, so oversized
indicators remain within bounds.y; preserve the row * presentation.rowHeight
offset for subsequent rows.

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In `@packages/charts-core/docs/reference/scales-guides-and-color.md`:
- Around line 588-617: Remove the direct edits from the generated package
documentation copy and apply the intended documentation changes only in the root
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