If you use .mw-ui-button on an <a href> hyperlink, it gets an unwanted underline; add .mw-ui-quiet and you see this underline on hover, e.g.
http://ee-flow-extra.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin

The existing mediawiki.ui/components/default/buttons.less has:

// This overrides an underline declaration on a:hover and a:focus in commonElements.css, which the
// class alone isn't specific enough to do
a.mw-ui-button {
        text-decoration: none;
}


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera@wikimedia.org> wrote:
2. Quiet buttons. I remember clearly from talking to May that we wanted them to be colored in their default state and make them slightly darker in hover.
Yes, and I added that to
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Agora_Control_Library#Buttons>
 but May's thinking was never put in the Flow mockups, or the Flow code.
It's tricky because a row of Cancel Preview [Save] would turn into gray-blue-green multicolor, but without it there's no indication of the button type on mobile.

BTW latest Flow mockups have an "even quieter" design for
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actions before you get a textarea with a quiet Cancel button and a CTA [Reply] button.

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