Guidance
Trope 04 · color
Rainbow colouring
Severity 3 of 3 · detected by css
Why it reads as slop
Giving every feature its own hue means no colour carries meaning. Colour should be spent, not distributed.
Heuristic
More than four distinct hue families used as accents across one page, or multi-hue gradients.
Antidotes
- One dominant hue, one accent, neutrals doing the restpractice
- Analogous scheme, or monochrome plus a single complementpractice