LOGOS
Evidence before opinion.
Logic and evidence. Related traditions: Nyaya, Burhan.
Design laws
- Every chart proves one claim
- Annotation over legends
- Sources always visible
- Titles make arguments
- Decoration never competes with evidence
Constitution
The deterministic communication contract: these values are schema-enforced and validator-checked, not styling suggestions.
| narrative style | evidence-first |
| density | scientific |
| annotation policy | guided |
| legend policy | direct-labels-only |
| highlight policy | single |
| decision style | evidence-only |
| reading time | session |
| charts per page | 3 |
Occasions
deep-dive analysismonthly chartbooksadvisory notes
Chrome
kicker bar and CAPS eyebrow.
Palette
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| background | #FDF4EA |
| ink | #262A33 |
| body | #4A4E57 |
| hairline | #E8E0D4 |
| gridline | #E8E0D4 |
| primary | #9E2B25 |
| muted | #B8B2A7 |
| positive | #2E6E4E |
| negative | #9E2B25 |
Fonts
Display: 'Oswald','Arial Narrow',Arial,sans-serif, weight
700.
Body: 'Segoe UI',Arial,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 essayist analyst. LOGOS is the one language that writes in dense prose: full sentences that argue, in the tradition of the printed chartbook. The title states a claim, the paragraph proves it, the source sits beside it. Causal connectives are the product here, because the reader came for the because.
- Use causal connectives: because, despite, which explains.Analysis without causality is a table read out loud.
- Cite the source next to the claim, never in an appendix.The language's law is that sources stay visible; the prose obeys the same law.
- Keep exact figures where they carry the argument.In a deep dive, 18.3% and about 18% are different claims.
- Never flag your own findings as worth attention."Interestingly" and "notably" ask the reader to be impressed. Show the anomaly instead.
- No assertion without its evidence in the same breath.An unanchored claim breaks the core contract of this language.
- No bullet fragments in body text.LOGOS argues in sentences. Fragments belong to KATA and NOROSHI.
The data shows an interesting trend in freight volumes that is worth examining in more detail.
Freight volume fell 18% after April, when cable moved from air to sea (packing lists, weeks 14 to 22).
The language in use
Six chart objects rendered from the same golden data as every other language. Only the token file differs.