Integrity
[v0.2]Difficulty is licensed only when it reveals a relation easier prose would conceal. Accidental ambiguity is a defect. Divergent consequence is a blocker.
[rule] Integrity is a release condition, not a review note.
Two tests every release passes
01
Accessible recoverability
Every essential claim, relation, instruction and consequence has a complete route independent of colour, typeface, motion, hover or spatial vision.
02
Defensible semantic surplus
The transformation adds a meaning that a reviewer can name, defend and relate to the claim. Difficulty alone does not qualify.
Ambiguity classes
Record designed ambiguity as primary reading, alternate reading, purpose, resolution point and consequence if misread. A0–A3 are licensed under conditions. AX is always a reject.
One operational reading
Required for Decision; default for formal Explanation.
Primary meaning + compatible echoes
Useful when secondary readings deepen rather than contradict the proposition.
Meaning resolves later
The delay must be bounded, intentional and rewarding on rereading.
The issue itself remains unsettled
Name the alternatives, evidence and consequence of each interpretation.
Different commitments
Reject when plausible readings alter action, authority, rights, cost or remedy.
Eight release gates
No gate is “not applicable” without a written rationale. Release order: licence → recovery + surplus → reader + power → relations + evidence + lineage → consent → responsive + access.
01
Licence + consequence
Classify the act
Mark Encounter, Explanation or Decision and make each transition perceptible.
[block] Decision consequence hides inside encounter ambiguity.
02
Proposition + recovery
Recover the claim and its surplus
Provide the canonical route, local operator ledger and notation status.
[block] Styling supplies an unsupported claim.
03
Reader + power
Audit position, benefit and burden
Name speaker, addressee, authority, beneficiary, burden holder and affected non-reader.
[block] Viewer silently becomes consenter, or the actor disappears.
04
Relations + evidence + lineage
Keep every jurisdiction inspectable
Type claims, joins, warrants, mechanisms, counterconditions and authority gates.
[block] Pertinence becomes proof, or styling bridges a logical gap.
05
Authority + remedy
Protect agency at state change
Disclose basis, prior and resulting state, alternatives, receipt, expiry and remedy.
[block] One-way, bundled or preselected choice.
06
Responsive + accessible
Preserve rhetorical invariants
Test narrow, wide, print, no-JS, keyboard, screen reader, zoom and reduced motion.
[block] A relation, refusal or consequence exists only in colour or position.
07
Ethics + harm
Do not reproduce the harm
Review capture, coercion, exposure, stereotype, exclusion and repair.
[block] Rhetorical simulation creates material harm.
08
Registry + version
Release a governed object
Record owner, evidence, mandate, effective date, expiry, deprecated readings and correction.
[block] Identity, provenance or current version disagrees.
One jurisdiction per channel
Never ask one hue to carry domain, status and sequence at once. This is the same rule the semantic meanings follow with shape — the channel is the carrier, and it can only carry one thing.
Hue
carries Domain
✗ never Epistemic status or sequence
Line syntax + label
carries Epistemic status
✗ never Domain
Position + tone
carries Sequence
✗ never Authority
Signal accent
carries The current operative hinge
✗ never Default buttons or decoration
Chromatic discipline
Area roles, not colour families. Signal derives its force from scarcity — this is the same discipline as the 5% dusk rule on the colour page, stated as a full-composition budget.
70 / canvas — The reading ground.
20 / structure — Readable structure and boundary.
8 / trace — Analytic domain accents.
2 / signal — The current operative event.
Anti-pattern index
Named failures. Each one is a way a composition can look rigorous while doing something else.
Universal symbol dictionary
Assigning fixed meanings to code-like marks regardless of operand and context.
Aesthetic computationality
Borrowing system syntax to manufacture precision or authority.
Plain-language reduction
Calling form expendable when it carries enacted meaning.
Pronoun capture
Using "we" or "you" to annex the reader or fabricate consent.
Hidden agent
Using passivity to shift investigative burden onto the affected person.
Coercive CTA
Making assent prominent while refusal, consequence or remedy recedes.
Ornamental quantification
Using weights, arrows or equations without scale, mechanism or source.
Responsive flattening
Keeping words while deleting the path, suspension or action parity.
Evidence halo
Surrounding a claim with charts to manufacture authority without a declared function.
Corpus realism
Treating the circulation of language as real-world prevalence or truth.
Join slippage
Allowing "bears upon" to become "supports" through proximity or styling.
Centre-as-truth
Using spatial centrality to upgrade a source account into verified fact.
Missing-denominator theatre
Displaying a precise count without the population, corpus, baseline or scope.
Span laundering
Attaching evidence to a softened paraphrase instead of the exact claim examined.