Palette, type, radius, motion, and icons. The 45-minute pass that stops your app reading as a template fork.
TL;DR
Six defaults give away almost every Expo template: blue-500, Inter, Lucide outline icons, borderRadius: 12 cards, borderRadius: 8 buttons, and a "Nothing here yet" empty state.
Three changes do most of the work in 45 minutes: one palette, one type pairing, one radius token.
Mixed radii (8 on buttons, 12 on cards) is the single most visible tell. Pick one.
Add exactly one motion primitive: press-in scale to 0.97, one shared spring config, everywhere.
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