# Color exceptions

`SKILL.md` section 3 points here. These four exceptions are documented so no sweep removes them; none is a precedent for another surface.

The color rules have four documented exceptions:

- **The films.** A film's palette is its material (the gem smoke in its blue, fire or ink palette, and the Bayer print in the material's own tones). The four-color limit and the one-accent rule give way to it. Gradients other than the material, CSS glows and shadows, glass chrome, rounded corners and colors from outside the material stay refused (`motion/MOTION.md`, Round 4 direction; `gt-films`).
- **The dashboard's credits card.** `.credits-card` in `$GT_CLOUD/apps/dashboard/src/app/brand-tokens.css` is a payment-card object with a literal dark fill, a 14px radius and, on paper, a shadow. Its own comment names it the one such surface on the plate pages; it is no precedent for another surface.
- **The horizon ring** is the one iridescent gradient the avoid list allows (deck slide 39).
- **The Prototemplate mark's rainbow core** belongs to the Prototemplate chrome (DESIGN.md section 15) and appears on no GT surface.