Signals Colour, type and surface
Effects lifted from a component gallery
- Category
- Colour, type and surface
- Direction
- Pushes the score up
- Weight
- +9
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
9 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
Remove the borrowed effects. Keep at most one piece of motion, and only where it explains something: a state change, a sequence, a result arriving.
Where it fires
None of our worked examples trip this one, which is itself informative — it means the pattern is rarer than the tells that fire constantly, so when it does show up it is worth paying attention to.