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name: "color-material-lighting-direction"
description: "Design website color, material, surface, and lighting direction. Use for premium visual systems, avoiding one-note palettes, defining luxury or cinematic color without cliches, setting contrast, backgrounds, gradients, surfaces, shadows, glass, and material accents."
---

# Color Material Lighting Direction

## Purpose

Make palette, surface, and lighting choices support the site concept and readability.

## Required Use

Use this skill when the trigger description applies. Keep the `SKILL.md` lean, then read `references/color-material-lighting-direction-guide.md` for concrete rules before planning or editing a meaningful website change.

## Operating Contract

1. Inspect before coding when code exists.
2. Convert vague taste into concrete rules.
3. Explain planned files before major changes unless the user clearly said to proceed.
4. Build, inspect, polish, and verify.
5. Report commands run, files changed, and anything not tested.

## Detailed Guide

Read `references/color-material-lighting-direction-guide.md` when this skill is active for a build, redesign, review, or implementation plan.