Harden UI layout for font scale and long strings

- Measure and cap the HUD target chip after each font-scale change; clip HUD top labels.
- Ellipsize long action-button labels so panels cannot grow past the viewport.
- Add accessibility/button layout assertions and refresh the gallery captures.
- Record the font/layout pass in TODO, docs, changelog and memory.

docs/development-status.md

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Implemented so far:
 - Joke Shop / Sunset Strip map (map optimization): the second venue is now a stylized reconstruction of The Comedy Store block at 8433 Sunset Blvd, with a 27 m black hall, signature-covered sloping canopy, circular **THE JOKE SHOP** blade sign, red velvet curtain bays, a west-end entrance, cream and white low-rise neighbours, a dry hillside with stucco houses and palms behind the roofline, and a low retail/billboard frontage across Sunset. The same geometry serves day and late lighting through the phase system. Real-site references and limits are in [`joke-shop-map.md`](joke-shop-map.md); the map measures **22,680 triangles across 454 meshes** in the budget test.
 - Venue geometry (v0.7.0, Joke Shop frontage superseded by the map-optimization pass): the TV Studio builds a stone facade, bulb canopy, glossy black car and barrier line. `WorldBuilder.VENUE_SPECS` drives facade/street/nav dimensions, and `GameManager` rebuilds only the world container when the venue changes.
 - Gear fit (post-v0.6.0): Blender gear is measured against the avatar head/skirt silhouette and the checks run in both the Python tooling and the headless suite. Sunglasses, the shoulder bag and the firefighter helmet were fitted to the new faces; the Influencer portrait and gallery were recaptured with a before/after report.
+- Font/layout pass (0.9.3 work): HUD font scale was exercised at 0.75× and 1.75×; the target chip measures and caps scaled names, top labels clip, and shared action buttons ellipsize long 1.5–2× labels instead of overflowing. Covered by accessibility/button tests and recorded in `docs/ui-copy.md`.
 - Modal-close pass (0.9.3 work): one top-modal close path handles Esc/right-click for every overlay, Settings opened from the menu restores the menu, Help no longer opens Pause behind it, and pointer/guard freeze state is recaptured after each close. The session smoke covers these paths.
 - Keyboard/gamepad focus pass (0.9.3 work): `UiFocus` rings wrap through visible/enabled controls, hidden Continue and disabled timeline actions are skipped, each modal has a default focus, and A/B are bound to `ui_accept`/`ui_cancel` for pad-only navigation. Recorded in `docs/ui-copy.md`.
 - Button-state pass (0.9.3 work): a shared `UiStyles` helper now gives every action button explicit normal, hover, pressed, focus and disabled styles; the timeline disables Previous/Next at its boundaries, while hidden continue states and the keyboard-only tutorial skip remain intentional. Recorded in `docs/ui-copy.md`.

docs/smoke-checklist.md

@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@
 43. The venue menu offers Hollywood Boulevard — Day and — Night; either starts the same map, and Night starts in the late phase with a full shift clock.
 44. The Joke Shop opens on the Sunset Strip club: the black hall, signature canopy, circular **THE JOKE SHOP** sign, red curtains, west entrance, palms, dry hillside with houses, neighbouring frontage and the opposite side of Sunset all read from the door camera. Day lighting and late lighting both look correct; the guard can walk the sidewalk without leaving the nav bounds.
 45. Esc and right-click close only the top panel (Help, Settings, Pause, Review, Radio, timeline, inspection/wand, action wheel); Settings opened from the venue menu returns to the menu, Help no longer opens Pause behind it, and closing a modal recaptures the mouse without leaving the guard frozen.
+46. At 0.75× and 1.75× HUD font scale, long target names stay inside the target chip, the chip grows/caps correctly, and long button labels ellipsize instead of pushing panels off-screen.

docs/ui-copy.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI copy and button inventory
 
-Status: dialogue, button-state, focus and modal-close passes complete; layout/end-to-end audit in progress for 0.9.3.
+Status: dialogue, button-state, focus, modal-close and font/layout passes complete; destructive-action and end-to-end audit in progress for 0.9.3.
 
 ## Screen inventory
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ silent profiles can still return an empty context line.
 | Tutorial / Help | The wheel verb is **Ask**, but help and the HUD key strip called it “polite direction”. | Both now say **Ask**; the tutorial tells the player to choose Ask after closing the panel. |
 | Review / campaign | Continue/return/quit labels and campaign-next copy checked. | No ambiguity found; no change. |
 | Repetition | Shared tourist/confused/delivery lines recur across venues by design; role-specific reason lines prevent every archetype sounding alike. | Accepted for the shared-archetype model. |
-| Localization length | Longest authored NPC/door line is 56 characters; longest UI string is `hud.controls` at 172 characters. | Dialogue fits the HUD log; the 1.5–2× string/font-scale layout test remains a separate 0.9.3 task. |
+| Localization length | Longest authored NPC/door line is 56 characters; longest UI string is `hud.controls` at 172 characters. | Dialogue fits the HUD log; long-string/font-scale layout is covered below. |
 
 ## Button state audit
 
@@ -152,10 +152,25 @@ resumes; `_show_start_menu()` keeps the pointer visible at the menu.
 The session smoke now covers menu → Settings → Cancel → menu, Help closing on
 right-click, and Settings cancel from pause leaving the guard unfrozen.
 
+## Font-scale and long-string layout
+
+The HUD scale is tested at its **0.75×** and **1.75×** bounds. HUD top/time labels
+clip instead of crossing into each other, and the target chip now measures the
+scaled target text: normal long names widen the chip, while an extreme synthetic
+name is capped at 420 px and ellipsized. Action-button labels use `clip_text` and
+ellipsis in `UiStyles`, so a 1.5–2× pseudo-string cannot push a panel beyond the
+viewport. The menu shell intentionally keeps its own fixed typography; the HUD
+scale setting only changes HUD text.
+
+Regression coverage lives in `test_accessibility.gd` (target-chip width/cap) and
+`test_ui_buttons.gd` (long action-label minimum width). The pseudo-locale
+translator workflow remains a 0.10.0 task; this pass uses deterministic long
+strings and the maximum supported HUD scale.
+
 ## Remaining audit work
 
 - Player-facing labels are now routed through `content/strings.en.json`; numeric
   values, empty-state clears and debug-only text remain in code by design.
 - Focus/hover/pressed/disabled states and keyboard/gamepad rings are recorded above.
-- Test long strings and 1.75x HUD font scale.
+- Long strings and 0.75×/1.75× HUD scale are covered above.
 - Capture every dialog/button state and run `screen_designs.py compare` plus the pinned judge.