reserved-gold

Summary

Gold marks a paid action, and nothing else may use it.

Why it matters

Every industry ships a free starter pack alongside seven paid ones, on the same grid, in the same shape. The only thing separating free content from paid at a glance is the colour. Spend gold on a neutral highlight anywhere else and the grid stops answering "what costs money?" — which is the one question the store screen exists to answer.

This is not visible in any single wireframe. Each screen looks fine alone; the rule is only violable across screens, which is why it is written here rather than left to the pixels.

Implications

• Pack CTAs, the bundle sell and the locked-pack badge are gold. Nothing else is.
• Navy is the brand — chrome, the app shell, the history hero — and never signals price.
• A promotional highlight that is not about money picks another token, or it teaches players that gold means "look here" rather than "this costs money".

Related

• skip-is-not-a-warning — the same discipline applied to the game's colours
• packs — what is actually sold

Sources

• .context/designs/mobile/shared.css — the RESERVED banner in the palette block
• .context/designs/mobile/home/home.html