The one moment the app is allowed to be loud about a person.
Part of the Konjo design language. The laws in the spine apply here unless this chapter contradicts them.
Before you write a word of consequence copy, read 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
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Conferred by Sensei Marcus Reyes
Dojo Blue Heron Martial Arts
Date Nov 8, 2026
Time at rank 14 months
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[ 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. 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
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. 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.