Cream and beige by reflex
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Rule · bucket: hybrid · severity: warning · detector: cream-palette · since: v0.17.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Generic-AI aesthetic

Forbidden:
  A warm off-white page (`#f5f0e8`, `#faf7f2`), beige cards and a brown-grey text colour, chosen because the brief said "warm", "editorial" or nothing at all

Instead:
  The brand file's neutrals, or a decision recorded in `DECISIONS.md`. Cream is a fine answer to a question someone asked; it is a default when nobody did.

Cream replaced violet (`A-01`) as the colour a model reaches for when asked to look tasteful. The failure is the same one: a palette nobody chose, which makes unrelated products look alike and dates every page that carries it.