feat(ui): Section style alignment

[austincalvelage]

Description

Preview: https://swingset-git-austin-user-profile-03-section-style-alignment.clerkstage.dev/components/section
Updates designs to match latest Figma.

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• (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR updates Section media sizing, spacing, backgrounds, typography, and nested content styles. It adds xl support to Avatar and resizes lg to 42px. It aligns stories and documentation with the revised layouts. It adds the arrow-right-top icon, expands spacing tokens, updates color tokens, and adds changeset metadata.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0eebd

The PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related PRs

• clerk/javascript#9428: Directly extends the Section component and its stories with related media and layout changes.
• clerk/javascript#9456: Modifies the same Avatar size APIs, styles, tests, and stories.

Suggested reviewers: maxyinger, alexcarpenter

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: aligning Section styles with the latest design.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly relates to the changes by explaining the design updates and providing a Section preview.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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[austincalvelage]

Following up replacing with IconFrame

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/avatar/avatar.test.tsx`:
- Around line 71-78: Update the Avatar test around the existing avatar query to
retain coverage for both size variants: assert that the lg avatar renders at
42px and that the xl avatar renders at its expected dimension, while preserving
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[austincalvelage]

whats the reasoning for actions to have margin left defined + the items gap?

Not needed. Overlooked