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TermCraft conventionFoundational

Semantic Color

Colours that always mean the same thing.

Definition

Colour assigned a fixed communicative role, such as success, warning or error.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

Colours that always mean the same thing.

Example

Red for destructive actions and errors, used consistently and always with text or an icon.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

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Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.