# D-17 critic: direction (look)
2026-10-20. Measured: HSV, WCAG, Machado 2009 colour vision in OKLab, 4x4 fill on rough-board.png.

## Verdicts
**A Night shift: REVISE, 7.** Serves the claim: grey street until your press, colour only on a lock. Spotify's dark UI and browse grid as a lit city, better because colour is earned. Survives a bad day. Competitor swap: the mechanism transfers (Anghami could flood purple); the rebuilt field and palette do not.

**B Daylight print: REJECT, 5.** Inherited risograph (3 of 6). Printing decorates the claim. Green 1.66 and coral 1.71 on #EFEFEA fail 3:1; red 3.96, magenta 4.03 fail 4.5; overprints make off-palette hues; near-Wrapped implies endorsement.

**C Signal: REJECT, 5.** Cleanest line of the claim, but the category convention (R-04): swap green for Apple red and it runs unchanged. Inherited Swiss Motion (2 of 6). Floor: fill 9 vs 10, depth 2 vs 3.

## Gates
| Gate | A | B | C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default look (hue 225-300, s 0.30+) | pass (red 354, coral 18, mint 167, olive 76) | pass (magenta 324) | pass |
| 4 of 6 | Poster color-block 4: palette, layout (2.5D vs flat), motion (crane vs wipes), structure differ; type same | Risograph 3, FAIL: paper L 0.951 both, magenta h352 vs 350; Bricolage and brushed kit, bass, marimba are the entry's own | Swiss Motion 2, FAIL: family, grid, snap, techno match |
| Default kit | 3: dark type opener (D-15), typed search box, mint on dark (h179 OKLCH, cyan) | 1 | 2 |
| Contrast | pass if words on coral, mint, green are #121212 (9.47, 13.78, 9.76; white 1.36 to 1.98) | FAIL | pass |
| Arabic | line box clears marks | ascent 643 below hamza 851 | line box 1.25 em below ink 1.52 em |
| Floor | on paper yes | light_events 2, no margin | under |

All Floor lines claim fill 12 to 16, but the rough board's resolve and CTA (34.0 to 41.0 s, undeclared) measure 4 and 5 of 16: 7.0 s under 10.

## Choice
A alone.

## Fixes (by impact)
1. **Ambition, floor: end on Spotify's search page built from the street.** At 34.0 s fold the locked lanes into a 4-column "Browse all" tile grid under the field (field on top, as on open.spotify.com/search), one tile per lane colour with its noise word, no art, pulsing on the beat to 41.0 s. Fill 13 of 16; no competitor can run it.
2. **Drop red.** Horn coral #FFA178 (first flood), hammer olive #608108, drill mint #91EEDA, engine slate #477D95 (browse tile, HSV 198). Worst lane pair rises 4.9 to 6.7 (olive vs slate, tritan; others 12.6+); nearest Apple red dE 15.2 (was 4.2); no flag set. Coral vs play green stays 3.4 (deutan): 240 px apart, triangle kept.
3. **Light carries the choice, restores depth.** At top-down (27 to 34 s) billboards lie flat: 2 layers vs 3. Add overhead lamps and wires at 1.25x parallax, #2A2A2A until their lane locks, then a 600 px pool of the lane colour at 30 percent over the grain.
4. **Default kit to 2, logged.** The answer lands whole on the 10.0 s downbeat (D-14; the storyboard types it); D-entries for the D-15 opener and mint (Premium page accent).
5. **Arabic, logo.** Plex Arabic Bold only for read words, 1.35x Latin size (body was 69 percent of Figtree x-height), texture 56 px minimum; 9:16 question on two lines; end card #000000 for the green logo.

Highest scored: A, 7 (REVISE; none KEEP).