KATA
Perfect through repetition.
Discipline and continuous practice. Related traditions: Kaizen, Praxis, Li.
Design laws
- Standardized layouts
- Repeatable structures
- Consistency over novelty
- Process is visible
- Continuous improvement
Constitution
The deterministic communication contract: these values are schema-enforced and validator-checked, not styling suggestions.
| narrative style | recommendation-first |
| density | operational |
| annotation policy | minimal |
| legend policy | direct-labels-only |
| highlight policy | single |
| decision style | recommendation-with-owner |
| reading time | minute |
| charts per page | 2 |
Occasions
weekly status decksprogress dashboardsPMO reporting
Chrome
no kicker, no eyebrow; the title stands alone.
Palette
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| background | #FFFFFF |
| panel | #F7FAFA |
| ink | #222222 |
| body | #555555 |
| hairline | #E2E8E8 |
| gridline | #EAEAEA |
| primary | #008080 |
| primaryDark | #005F5F |
| muted | #B7DCDC |
| benchmark | #AAAAAA |
| positive | #339966 |
| negative | #D63A2F |
| warning | #E08A00 |
Fonts
Display: 'Rethink Sans','Segoe UI',sans-serif, weight
600.
Body: 'Poppins','Segoe UI',sans-serif, weight
400.
Voice
How a page in this language reads. The universal prose laws (FN-07) apply first, then this register. The validator checks that the block below obeys its own caps.
The drumbeat voice. KATA's reader compares this week against last week. New phrasing breaks the comparison: when the same event is cleared one week, processed the next, and finalized the week after, the reader re-parses instead of scanning. Varied wording is a defect here. Same words, same order, every period; only the numbers move.
- Lock one term per concept and repeat it forever.Synonym rotation is where padding enters a recurring deck.
- Pair every number with its period delta.A weekly page without the delta makes the reader remember last week.
- Match the words in the prose to the status words on the chips.The language already prints the word on the chip; the text may not contradict it.
- No elegant variation and no fresh metaphors.Novelty costs scanning speed and adds nothing week over week.
- Never claim progress with an adjective.The delta is shorter than the adjective and it survives being quoted.
- No pleasantries.Nobody is pleased. It is Tuesday and this is the weekly page.
We are pleased to report significant progress in clearance activities this week across the portfolio.
Clearance: 41 of 50 files complete, +5 on last week. Nine held at the port. Owner: logistics.
The language in use
Six chart objects rendered from the same golden data as every other language. Only the token file differs.