diff --git a/src/tests/unknown-paint.test.ts b/src/tests/unknown-paint.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0659248d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/unknown-paint.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { parsePaint, buildSimplifiedStrokes } from "~/transformers/style.js";
+import type { Paint, Node as FigmaDocumentNode } from "@figma/rest-api-spec";
+
+// Paint types outside the REST spec reach real files: Figma code-component
+// CUSTOM paints (customEffectId + componentPropAssignments) were observed live
+// on 2026-08-22. The spec's Paint union cannot express them, so the fixture
+// casts through unknown exactly the way the API payload arrives at runtime.
+const customPaint = {
+  type: "CUSTOM",
+  visible: true,
+  blendMode: "NORMAL",
+  customEffectId: "CodeComponentId:20e41e41-fixture",
+  componentPropAssignments: [{ defId: "1:2", value: "fixture" }],
+} as unknown as Paint;
+
+const solidRed: Paint = {
+  type: "SOLID",
+  blendMode: "NORMAL",
+  color: { r: 1, g: 0, b: 0, a: 1 },
+};
+
+describe("unknown paint types", () => {
+  it("degrades to a marked passthrough instead of throwing", () => {
+    const fill = parsePaint(customPaint);
+    expect(fill).toEqual({ type: "CUSTOM", unknownPaint: true, raw: customPaint });
+  });
+
+  it("preserves the raw Figma fields for later consumers", () => {
+    const fill = parsePaint(customPaint) as { raw: Record<string, unknown> };
+    expect(fill.raw).toBe(customPaint);
+    expect(fill.raw.customEffectId).toBe("CodeComponentId:20e41e41-fixture");
+    expect(fill.raw.componentPropAssignments).toEqual([{ defId: "1:2", value: "fixture" }]);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves known paints untouched", () => {
+    expect(parsePaint(solidRed)).toMatch(/^#ff0000$/i);
+  });
+
+  it("does not abort stroke parsing when one stroke paint is unknown", () => {
+    const node = {
+      id: "1:1",
+      name: "mixed-strokes",
+      type: "RECTANGLE",
+      strokes: [solidRed, customPaint],
+      strokeWeight: 2,
+    } as unknown as FigmaDocumentNode;
+    const strokes = buildSimplifiedStrokes(node);
+    expect(strokes.colors).toHaveLength(2);
+    // Reversed to CSS stacking order: the unknown top paint leads, marked.
+    expect(strokes.colors[0]).toEqual({ type: "CUSTOM", unknownPaint: true, raw: customPaint });
+    expect(strokes.colors[1]).toMatch(/^#ff0000$/i);
+    expect(strokes.strokeWeight).toBe("2px");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/transformers/style.ts b/src/transformers/style.ts
index a58a1163..ab90a801 100644
--- a/src/transformers/style.ts
+++ b/src/transformers/style.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { Node as FigmaDocumentNode, Paint } from "@figma/rest-api-spec";
 import { generateCSSShorthand, isVisible } from "~/utils/common.js";
-import { tagError } from "~/utils/error-meta.js";
 import { hasValue, isStrokeWeights } from "~/utils/identity.js";
+import { Logger } from "~/utils/logger.js";
 
 import { convertColor, formatRGBAColor } from "./style/color.js";
 import { translateScaleMode, handleImageTransform, parsePatternPaint } from "./style/image.js";
@@ -21,10 +21,22 @@ import type { CSSRGBAColor, CSSHexColor } from "./style/color.js";
 import type { SimplifiedPatternFill } from "./style/image.js";
 import type { SimplifiedGradientFill } from "./style/gradient.js";
 
+/**
+ * A paint whose type this transformer does not recognize, passed through
+ * marked instead of dropped or thrown on. `raw` is the untouched Figma paint,
+ * so consumers that learn a new type later lose nothing in the meantime.
+ */
+export type SimplifiedUnknownFill = {
+  type: string;
+  unknownPaint: true;
+  raw: Paint;
+};
+
 export type SimplifiedFill =
   | SimplifiedImageFill
   | SimplifiedGradientFill
   | SimplifiedPatternFill
+  | SimplifiedUnknownFill
   | CSSRGBAColor
   | CSSHexColor;
 
@@ -148,6 +160,12 @@ export function parsePaint(raw: Paint, hasChildren: boolean = false): Simplified
       gradient: convertGradientToCss(raw),
     };
   } else {
-    tagError(new Error(`Unknown paint type: ${raw.type}`), { category: "internal" });
+    // Figma ships paint types faster than this transformer learns them (live
+    // example: code-component CUSTOM paints, which are absent from the REST
+    // spec). Throwing here failed an entire get_figma_data response over one
+    // paint on one node, so unknown types degrade instead: marked, with the
+    // raw paint preserved, and the rest of the simplification stays usable.
+    Logger.error(`Unknown paint type "${raw.type}" passed through unparsed.`);
+    return { type: raw.type, unknownPaint: true, raw };
   }
 }