Bar
The top of a page: a wordmark with a lamp, printed links, and one contrast key at most.
Templates
Release notes · Halyard
Release notes for a deploy tool as a register: each version in the margin like a ledger folio, its changes grouped by kind, breaking changes printed with the before and after. Pick the version you run and an instrument counts the releases since and the ones that need a change from you.
On this page
Anatomy
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.
Panel
A face plate that groups what belongs together: a head, a rule, then the parts. Screws only on device-like panels.
Select
A choice from a longer list, in the same recess as a field, with a printed chevron. The browser’s own menu opens it.
LCD
A value that changes, on grey-green liquid crystal, with a ghost of the unlit segments behind it: clocks, battery, counters.
Status
A lamp with words: the state line in tables, panel heads and lists. The words carry the meaning; the lamp is the glance.
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.
Check
An option in a form: a small square key that presses below the plate when chosen, with a tick printed on it.
Tag
A small printed plate: a type, a count, a badge. Solid for the one tag that must stand out.
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.
Glass
Dark display glass for plots and live readouts, whatever the finish around it. Everything printed inside it is lit.
Key
Every button, and every link that acts like one: a cap on a skirt that drops below the plate when pressed.
Link
Printed type that goes somewhere. The words stay in ink and the rule under them is engraved into the plate: cut darker when you hover, deeper when you press.
Combo
One field with its one action in a shared well: subscribe, search, add.
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.
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.
Toast
A confirmation after an action.
Usage notes
Bar · a masthead with a display title and a follow field · a sticky rail: the upgrading-from instrument (a select, an LCD count, a lamp, the upgrade command on glass), the kinds as checks with counts, the index of releases · the register: version, date and tags in the margin; title, lead, a printed warning with before and after on glass, changes by kind with issue numbers, a copy link key · older releases, then a disabled key that says it is the end · a key at the foot that shows the other states (?state=).