Decorative styling that implies meaning
- Forbidden
- List items in assorted colours chosen for variety; a decorative icon beside a heading that looks pressable; a heading coloured and underlined though it is not a link
- Instead
- Style carries information or it goes. People assume differences mean something — arbitrary colour invites them to hunt for a pattern that does not exist, and an icon that looks interactive will be clicked.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
Decoration is allowed. Decoration that mimics a functional signal is not.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Generic-AI aesthetic
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0