# Celebration — the promotion certificate The one moment the app is allowed to be loud about a person. > Part of the [Konjo design language](../konjo-design-language.md). The laws in the spine apply here unless this chapter contradicts them. > **Before you write a word of consequence copy**, read > [product-facts.md](../product-facts.md). Who is alerted, what becomes permanent, who > can read it afterwards and whether it can be undone are decided there — and where they > are not, that is a blocker rather than something to phrase well. Reserved for what a human conferred: a promotion, a passed test, a coach's sign-off. A streak is *stated*; a rank is *celebrated*. **The form is a certificate, and the conferring instructor is the subject.** Not a full-screen takeover, not a badge-unlock burst — a record you would keep. ``` RANK CONFERRED eyebrow, gold 1 Brown Stripe display 34/800 ──────────────────────────────── Conferred by Sensei Marcus Reyes Dojo Blue Heron Martial Arts Date Nov 8, 2026 Time at rank 14 months ──────────────────────────────── [ See what's next ] one filled primary, ink Share with your dojo one text link ``` This is a deliberate exception to the [badge-grid mechanic](progress.md). Streaks and counts are game-shaped because they are the app's own bookkeeping; a rank is not. In martial arts a rank is **conferred by a person, not unlocked by a system**, and a design that says "unlocked!" quietly takes the credit away from the sensei who gave it. Naming them is the whole point of the screen. **Gold is the one place a contrast failure would have been unforgivable, and it was there.** `gold.text` was `#B8860B` on `gold.fill`, computing to **2.96:1** — the achievement moment, the thing the brand cares most about, was the least readable screen in the app. It now ships `#8A6300`, and `gold.text on gold.fill` is **4.95:1** light / 7.25:1 dark. Do not reintroduce the old value; the checker will reject it. The gradient exemption and the one animation allowed past 400ms both live here, and both are opt-out under reduce-motion. --- ## About the reference image [`reference/konjo/promotion-certificate-target.jpg`](../reference/konjo/promotion-certificate-target.jpg) shows the composition, and its **button, alignment and date format are all wrong** — a full-width pill, centred in a void, with a long-form date. The deviations are listed in [SOURCES.md](../reference/SOURCES.md). Take the layout from the image and the rules from here; where they disagree, the rules win. This is worth stating because an artefact is more persuasive than a paragraph. A blind test of the promotion form found that the generated form target hands you a finished consequence sentence, and the tempting move is to copy it forward — which is invention laundered through a reference, and harder to catch than invention in prose.