Signals Human craft
Hand-authored stylesheet
- Category
- Human craft
- Direction
- Pulls the score down
- Weight
- −8
What it is
Evidence of deliberate decisions. Finding this does not make a page good. It makes it deliberate, which is a different and smaller claim.
How it is weighted
This is a craft marker, so it pulls the score down rather than up — 8 points of evidence that somebody made a decision here.
Craft does double duty in the scoring. It subtracts directly, and it also damps the aesthetic categories: the more deliberate craft a page shows, the less its gradients and rounded corners are allowed to say about it.
How to earn it
Move the one-off utility stacks into named, readable styles so intent is visible in the markup.
Where it fires
None of our worked examples trip this one, which is itself informative — it means the pattern is rarer than the tells that fire constantly, so when it does show up it is worth paying attention to.