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House-Style Convergence
Unrelated briefs repeatedly converge on the same macrostructure and motif bundle, such as dark canvas, fluorescent accent, mono section labels, hard grids, terminal chrome, and giant condensed type.
Anti-patternsContextual
Intent
Keep UI Forge product-derived by separating subject matter from style and rotating complete direction systems instead of recoloring a familiar shell.
Checks
- Name three tempting genre defaults before selection and use at most one without brand, asset, or reference evidence.
- Compare against existing project surfaces or recent artifacts when available; reroute if the macrostructure and two or more strong motifs repeat.
- Reject unsupported technical bundles such as condensed ultra-bold type, uppercase mono labels, fluorescent ticker, saturated artifact panel, offset shadow, and hard rules when three or more recur together.
- Reject unsupported premium-commerce bundles such as cream canvas, brown or burgundy accents, display serif, floating pill navigation, soft rounded panels, and sepia material swatches when three or more recur together.
Warnings
- Each motif may be valid alone; the unsupported recurring combination is the failure.
Exceptions
- An established brand system or explicit reference may intentionally own the recurring combination.