Bar
The top of a page: a wordmark with a lamp, printed links, and one contrast key at most.
Templates
Website · Quiet
An uptime product site that speaks in specimens: “Nothing to report.” at display size, a live check of your own address, a year of its own alerts as lamps, three controls that are the whole setup, how it decides to speak, a printed rate card and questions. Loading, no-address, error and sign-ups-paused states included.
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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.
Field
Text entry in a recess, the label printed above it, and a hint that says how to fix an error.
Needle gauge
A moving-coil panel meter: a printed scale under glass, a thin needle that swings past the mark and settles, a lamp for the bands and a small LCD for the exact reading.
Readout
A printed label over a value: key figures, with the unit small and the change in words.
Tray
A recess cut into the plate that holds other parts: keys, a selector, an empty state waiting for its first thing.
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.
Table
Rows of data with printed column labels, figures right-aligned in columns, and status in lamps with words.
Key
Every button, and every link that acts like one: a cap on a skirt that drops below the plate when pressed.
Tag
A small printed plate: a type, a count, a badge. Solid for the one tag that must stand out.
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.
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 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.
Knob
A rotary control for continuous or stepped values where space is square. Its knurl and pointer turn; its light does not.
Switch
On or off, applied the moment it moves. A native checkbox with a ridged thumb in a slot that lights green when on.
Accordion
Printed sections that open in place. Each head ends in a small square key printed +; open, the key latches below the plate and reads −.
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
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
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
Bar · a display headline over one sentence and a key, beside a screwed panel that checks an address from six regions · numbered specimens in a margin: a year of alerts on a heatmap with four figures · three controls in trays · the alert sequence as a timed list · a rate card as a table with a cadence selector · questions in an accordion · a panel to start · a key at the foot that shows the other states (?state=).