Signals Colour, type and surface
Four accent colours competing
- Category
- Colour, type and surface
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +7
What it is
The visual defaults, applied unedited. Looks are the weakest evidence in the whole set. Anyone can reach for a gradient on purpose, which is why craft damps this entire category.
How it is weighted
7 points is mid-weight: real evidence, not a smoking gun. On its own it moves the number a few points.
What to do about it
Set a colour budget: one accent, one neutral ramp, and semantic colours reserved for real state. Everything else is type and space.
Where it fires
Of the homepages we scan as worked examples, this signal fired on one:
- tailwindcss.com 75/100 — 8 accent hues at the same volume. With no colour budget across the interface, the accents cancel each other out.