Same frame. The seams the audit found, closed — on the making side.

Decisions

7

Kept

5

New hand

Tufte

Knaflic

the decision

Wilke

encoding honesty

Kahneman

the two-second read

Shadcn

the token surface

data-ink to the floor

01

Laws made enforceable

The 4% accent budget is now checked, not trusted.

The fork ships an AccentBudget dev-time pass that sums accent area — counting filled controls first, since --control-fill is the largest spender — and warns over 4%. The law that was printed in bold and enforced by nothing is now enforced by the thing that renders the surface.

The colour / size namespace is a lint error, not a footnote.

_adherence.oxlintrc.json gains two rules: a --type-* token in a colour property is an error, a --text-* token in font-size is an error. The silent both-ways drop is caught the moment it is typed.

02

The figure layer, honest to the floor

Labels ladder down before they drop.

Tufte replaces the parent's drop-or-keep rule with a ladder: at small size a label first moves out onto a leader (the Callout already in the furniture), then abbreviates, then — only then — drops. A figure never silently loses the number the reader came for.

Overlap can no longer read as false density.

On DotField, FanChart and ChordDiagram the fork caps mark opacity so two stacked marks never read as three, and requires the caption to state that overlap is present. The one place a Baseline figure could lie about how much is there is closed — the lie factor held at 1.

Tufte's additive pass: the range-frame becomes the default axis.

His price of admission. The value axis is drawn only across the extent the data occupies and marked with min and max, and every sparkline carries its closing value by default. Two axis edges become two informative edges — more data, less non-data ink, without touching the parent's chart grammar.

03

Cost taken off the user

One anchored inline panel, for the interaction done most.

The fork adds InlinePanel — square, opaque, shadowless, obeying every other law — for the frequent low-stakes menu. The Drawer stays for the heavy case. The one-elevation doctrine survives; it just stops making the reader open a side panel to pick a filter.

The three authoring traps become scaffolding, and the export cliff a gallery.

A preflight catches the silent 0×0 icon, the glyph-less SVG <text> and the stale bundle before render, not in review; snippets ship the correct page head. And a static component gallery — one specimen per state — bridges the foundations-only Figma export so a designer does not fall off after the tokens.

What the fork is, in one line

The parent optimised for the coherence of the frame; the audit showed that coherence was paid for by whoever made or read the next artifact. Baseline / T keeps the frame whole and moves that cost back onto the system — a check instead of a warning, a lint rule instead of a footnote, a preflight instead of a correction round. Tufte's hand is on the figures: the same two axis edges, now carrying min, max and the closing value, so there is more data and less ink on exactly the surface Baseline exists to serve. Nothing here is a new aesthetic. It is the same system, held to its own standard on the side it had left to the user.