What a Craft Score of 71 actually means

A number that nobody can reconstruct is a vibe with a font. So here is the arithmetic.

How it is computed

The score starts at 100. Every finding subtracts a weight:

• Errors subtract more than warnings. An error is a rule with one correct answer — a missing focus state, contrast under the bar.
• Warnings subtract less. A warning is a rule that is usually right and occasionally wrong in context — a uniform card grid, a gradient outside a marketing page.
• Findings are counted per occurrence, capped per rule, so one repeated mistake cannot take a page to zero on its own.

The result is floored at 0 and never rounded up. Same source, same score, every run.

What a 71 looks like in practice

Two errors and one warning on an 84-file source tree. Typically: a component with transition: all, a card grid repeating six identical children, and a gradient headline. None of it is exotic — all three are what a model reaches for by default.

What the score does not measure

Presence. Every rule in the set measures absence: no gradient text, no emoji icons, no uniform grid. Nothing measures whether the page committed to anything, which means the shortest route to a perfect 100 is to risk nothing. A blank page with one paragraph scores clean.

We know this because we built the mirror of it — three rendered signals for display ambition, committed colour and how much of the page is drawn as boxes — and it reproduced a reviewer’s own ranking of seven pages before being told which they liked. Those signals are not in the score yet. When they are, the number will mean more than “nothing is wrong here”.

Until then, read the score as what it is: a floor, not a ceiling.