Panel
A face plate that groups what belongs together: a head, a rule, then the parts. Screws only on device-like panels.
Kit parts
Skeleton
The shape of a page before its data arrives, drawn as the unprinted plate: blank engraved bars where the words will print. Nothing on it moves. One amber lamp beside “Loading” is the only sign of work.
Seats open in 11 days. Want one email that morning?
Anatomy
There is no script and no animation. The cut is drawn with a tight shadow under its upper wall and a one pixel catch light on its lower lip, through the well depth token, so Quiet flattens it to a hairline and Printed draws it as an outline. Blocks and circles take the deeper recess the fields use.
Variants
- The panel · lamp, lines, a block
- A list row, beside the real one
- A readout, beside the real one
- A table row, beside the real one
- Lines
- Shapes · circle, block
States
- Loading
- Loaded
Usage notes
Switch the finish: each bar is a shallow cut in the plate, lit on its lower lip. Beside each skeleton is the real thing it stands in for, so the shapes can be checked against each other.
Accessibility
- The bars are hidden from assistive technology.
- Nothing moves, so there is nothing to stop under reduced motion; the amber lamp is steady, not blinking.
- The lamp sits beside the word “Loading”, so the colour is never the only signal.
- Bars are drawn as recesses in the plate’s own tokens, so they keep their contrast against the plate in every finish without a colour of their own.
Related parts
List
Rows in a rack: a mark, a title, a second line and a fact or a key at the end. Chosen rows sink into a recess with their check key latched; in a running order, a row lifts out of the rack on its skirt and slides past the others, from the keyboard or by its grip.
Lamp
The only colour in the kit: a lamp that is on. Green is on, amber is waiting, red is recording or failing, blue is linked, white is standing by. Always next to words.