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Give Activity a genuine ninth colour: --tt-orange
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Requested directly: "can we make activity orange". The locked eight
palette had already run out at six legible text colours (Watch's blue
was the last one, and it's already a contrast exception); a dithered
swatch alone read as unfinished, and dithering the word itself
rendered as illegible static — tried and reverted this session.

--tt-orange (#ff8000) is defined in base.css right after the locked
eight, clearly marked as a deliberate, acknowledged one-off exception
to "eight colours, no ninth" rather than a secretly-smuggled-in tint.
Same flat text+swatch treatment as every other fastext key. Updated
CLAUDE.md's discipline 1 and DESIGN.md's Locked Eight Rule to name the
exception explicitly, so it reads as a documented decision next time
someone audits the palette, not a bug.
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@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Teletext had exactly eight colours, at full saturation, and the product's semant
### Named Rules
**The Locked Eight Rule.** Eight colours exist. Adding a ninth hue, or desaturating one of the eight to make it sit more politely, is a regression rather than a variation. If a new state needs a colour, it takes one of the eight and inherits that colour's meaning.
**The Locked Eight Rule.** Eight colours exist. Adding a ninth hue, or desaturating one of the eight to make it sit more politely, is a regression rather than a variation. If a new state needs a colour, it takes one of the eight and inherits that colour's meaning. **One acknowledged exception:** `--tt-orange` in `base.css`, added for the fastext nav's eighth destination once the locked eight ran out of colours legible as text on black — a one-time, explained break, not a precedent for a second.
**The Dither Rule.** A mid-tone is an ordered dither of two of the eight at cell scale — a checkerboard or a repeating gradient stepped at `--dither-size: 2px` or at `--bar-cell-w` — exactly how a 16-colour screen faked a gradient. It is never a ninth colour smuggled into the palette. The two derived greys are the sanctioned exception, and they derive from white by `color-mix`, not by hand.