The soft rounded card

Forbidden: A 1px hairline and a wide soft shadow on the same card, a large radius, a pale tint: the card that holds every section of a generated page
Instead: Choose one edge: a hairline, or a surface step (A-08). Keep the radius to the element's size (A-07).

What this rule looks like

Forbidden

Instead

Why this rule

An edge and a shadow both draw the same boundary, so the card has two outlines. Repeated down the page, the cards stop grouping anything and become the page's texture.

Kind: Rule
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Generic-AI aesthetic
Bucket: judgment
Severity: warning
Since: v0.17.0

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