Standards · Colour

Colour

One teal for the brand, a navy ink for surfaces, and three colours reserved for meaning: facts, unknowns, and conflicts.

Colour does two jobs here, and they never overlap. Teal and ink are the foundation — brand and surface. The evidence system — green, amber, red — is never decorative: each colour maps to one epistemic state, so a reader can trust the colour the way they trust the words.

Foundation

Brand — Teal

anchor · brand-600

The WGO wordmark and every primary action. Brand-600 is the anchor; 500 lifts it on dark.

#f0fdfa

100

#ccfbf1

200

#99f6e4

300

#5eead4

400

#2dd4bf

500

#14b8a6

600

#0d9488

700

#0f766e

800

#115e59

900

#134e4a

950

#042f2e

Ink — Deep navy

anchor · ink-950

The canvas and terminal surfaces. Ink-950 is the dark-mode background; the lighter steps build panels and borders.

600

#1e3350

700

#16283f

800

#0f1e33

900

#0a1424

950

#060d18

The evidence system

Three colours, three epistemic states. This is the one place colour carries meaning rather than style — so it is never borrowed for decoration. A fact never quietly becomes an unknown; an unknown is never dressed up as a conflict.

Facts

Green

Verified and traceable to a source you can open.

anchor · fact-500

Unknowns

Amber

Missing or unverified — named plainly, never filled with confident prose.

anchor · unknown-500

Conflicts

Red

Differing or contradictory signals, surfaced and then reconciled.

anchor · conflict-500

In a finding

Fact Backups ran nightly for the last 30 days — ops/backup.log, verified.
Unknown Whether a restore has ever been tested. No evidence found; owner not reachable this cycle.
Conflict The runbook says 90-day retention; the config keeps 7 days. Surfaced for reconciliation.