Signals Colour, type and surface

Arrows that nudge right on hover

Category
Colour, type and surface
Direction
Pushes the score up
Weight
+5

What it is

The visual defaults, applied unedited. Looks are the weakest evidence in the whole set. Anyone can reach for a gradient on purpose, which is why craft damps this entire category.

How it is weighted

5 points is deliberately light. This one is a hint, and it is only interesting alongside others.

What to do about it

Keep the arrow on the one primary action, or drop it. A hover state can be a colour or underline change; it does not need to move.

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.

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