# Analytics · Sounding

A monthly report laid out like a printed annual report. Nothing moves at rest. Loading, no-events, error and recounting states included.

Template · With the Kit · https://tactileui.dev/templates/analytics

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## Anatomy

- [Bar](https://tactileui.dev/parts/bar): The top of a page: a wordmark with a lamp, printed links, and one contrast key at most.
- [Readout](https://tactileui.dev/parts/readout): A printed label over a value: key figures, with the unit small and the change in words.
- [VFD](https://tactileui.dev/parts/vfd): A vacuum-fluorescent display: cyan-white light on near-black glass, with a glow and a ghost. Frequencies, levels, status screens.
- [Panel](https://tactileui.dev/parts/panel): A face plate that groups what belongs together: a head, a rule, then the parts. Screws only on device-like panels.
- [Glass](https://tactileui.dev/parts/glass): Dark display glass for plots and live readouts, whatever the finish around it. Everything printed inside it is lit.
- [Progress](https://tactileui.dev/parts/progress): Progress through a task: ink filling a groove, never a coloured bar.
- [Selector](https://tactileui.dev/parts/selector): One mode of two to five: latching keys in a tray, one down at a time, each with a lamp that lights when chosen.
- [Table](https://tactileui.dev/parts/table): Rows of data with printed column labels, figures right-aligned in columns, and status in lamps with words.
- [Lamp](https://tactileui.dev/parts/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.
- [Key](https://tactileui.dev/parts/key): Every button, and every link that acts like one: a cap on a skirt that drops below the plate when pressed.
- [LCD](https://tactileui.dev/parts/lcd): A value that changes, on grey-green liquid crystal, with a ghost of the unlit segments behind it: clocks, battery, counters.
- [Tag](https://tactileui.dev/parts/tag): A small printed plate: a type, a count, a badge. Solid for the one tag that must stand out.
- [Lamp heatmap](https://tactileui.dev/parts/heatmap): A heatmap as a matrix of small panel lamps set into the plate: each lamp’s brightness is the value, off to full in four steps, with a printed legend. Deploys per day over a year, incidents by hour of the week, energy by the hour.
- [Switch](https://tactileui.dev/parts/switch): On or off, applied the moment it moves. A native checkbox with a ridged thumb in a slot that lights green when on.
- [Plot](https://tactileui.dev/parts/plot): Line charts drawn as light on glass, or as ink on a panel: gridlines faint, two traces at most, a red line for now.
- [LED bar chart](https://tactileui.dev/parts/ledbars): A bar chart built like a studio meter bridge: columns of LED segments behind a smoked window, green then amber then red, with a peak segment that lingers and a lit readout for the exact value.
- [Skeleton](https://tactileui.dev/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.
- [Empty state](https://tactileui.dev/parts/empty-state): What a view shows before it has anything: an empty tray with the outline of what goes in it printed on its floor, one sentence and one key.
- [Alert](https://tactileui.dev/parts/alert): A message let into the surface, with an annunciator: a small lit legend (Note, Done, Check, Fault) beside the words that say what happened.

## Usage notes

A bar with a numbered contents · a dateline with period and plan selectors · 01: a huge LCD over three lit readouts · 02: the cohort heatmap in the page’s one panel · 03: a plot in glass beside LED bars · 04: a sortable table · numbered notes · a key at the foot that shows the other states (?state=).