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The error text even says \"icon font\", reused from a different product line.\n2. **The Color API**, invalid hex (`ZZZZZZ`) — 200, full normal-looking JSON shape, but every numeric\n   field downstream of the parse is `null` or the literal string `\"NaN\"` inside a value string\n   (`\"rgb(NaN, NaN, NaN)\"`), while still confidently naming the color `\"Black\"`.\n3. **Simple Icons CDN**, invalid color segment (`notacolor`) — 200, a perfectly valid SVG, `fill=\"#181717\"`\n   — the garbage input is silently discarded and the brand default used instead, with no trace of\n   \"notacolor\" anywhere in the response to signal it was rejected.\n4. **QR Server (goqr.me)**, oversized `size=5000x5000` — 200, `content-type: image/png`, a real image — but\n   decoding the PNG's own `IHDR` shows it is actually 250×250, silently clamped, with nothing in headers or\n   body noting the cap.\n\nFour distinct disguises for \"your input was wrong and I did something else instead\": an error-shaped\ncomment inside a success content-type, numeric poison values inside an otherwise well-formed object, a\nsilent default substitution with no trace, and a silent dimension clamp only visible by decoding the binary\npayload. 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