Six more palettes, taking the picker to twelve

Catppuccin, Solarized, Ayu, Kanagawa, Everforest and Primer, each with the
light and dark variant its own project publishes: Latte and Mocha, Lotus
and Wave, and so on. Values were fetched from each project's own repository
and recorded in .palette-sources/palettes-upstream.md, with the two tiers
no project publishes marked derived rather than passed off as upstream.

Four candidates were rejected rather than adapted. Nord and Synthwave '84
publish no light variant, and inventing one is not porting a theme.
Monokai is proprietary and its licence forbids redistribution. Material
Theme has become a commercial product whose repository no longer publishes
a palette at all.

Body text is now lifted for contrast like every other text tone rather
than exempted and merely checked. Most of these palettes target their own
~4.5:1 for body text where ihasmail asks 7:1, so the old rule would have
rejected five of the six on a bar their designers never aimed at. Nudging
the published colour along its own hue is what the script already does for
muted text, links and accents, and every shift is printed in the generated
CSS: Solarized light moves 4.13 to 7.07, Primer needed nothing at all.

Primer is named for the design system, not for GitHub. The colour values
are MIT; the name and the logo are trademarks, and NOTICE says plainly
that nothing here is endorsed.

The picker grid already wrapped on its own, so twelve cards needed no
layout change.
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## Colour palettes
Four of the palettes offered in Settings Appearance are the work of their own
Ten of the palettes offered in Settings Appearance are the work of their own
projects and are used under the MIT licence. Only the published colour values
are used — no code, and nothing from anyone else's reimplementation of them.
The values as fetched from each project are recorded in
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Copyright (c) 2019 enkia — https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme
Licensed under the MIT licence. The light variant is "Day".
### Catppuccin
Copyright (c) 2021 Catppuccin — https://github.com/catppuccin/palette
Licensed under the MIT licence. "Mocha" is the dark variant and "Latte" the
light one; both are published in that repository's palette.json.
### Solarized
Copyright (c) 2011 Ethan Schoonover — https://github.com/altercation/solarized
Licensed under the MIT licence. Light and dark are both original to it, and
share one set of accent values by design.
### Ayu
Copyright (c) Konstantin Pschera — https://github.com/ayu-theme/ayu-colors
Licensed under the MIT licence. The two signature accent colours come from the
same author's ayu-theme/vscode-ayu, also MIT.
### Kanagawa
Copyright (c) 2021 Tommaso Laurenzi — https://github.com/rebelot/kanagawa.nvim
Licensed under the MIT licence. "Wave" is the dark variant and "Lotus" the
light one. The theme takes its name from Hokusai's print.
### Everforest
Copyright (c) 2019 Sainnhe Park — https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest
Licensed under the MIT licence. The medium-contrast variant of each mode is
the one used here.
### Primer
Copyright (c) GitHub, Inc. — https://github.com/primer/primitives
Licensed under the MIT licence, which covers the colour values. "GitHub" and
the Invertocat logo are trademarks of GitHub, Inc.; this palette is named
"Primer" after the design system and is neither affiliated with nor endorsed
by GitHub.
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The MIT licence, under which all four are used:
The MIT licence, under which all ten are used:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),