SAGA
Every report becomes history.
History and continuity. Related traditions: Chronicle, Annals, Tarikh.
Design laws
- Narrative hierarchy
- Time is explicit
- Trends over snapshots
- Headlines tell the story
- Archive-friendly formatting
Constitution
The deterministic communication contract: these values are schema-enforced and validator-checked, not styling suggestions.
| narrative style | story-first |
| density | operational |
| annotation policy | guided |
| legend policy | direct-labels-only |
| highlight policy | single |
| decision style | evidence-only |
| reading time | minute |
| charts per page | 2 |
Occasions
weekly digestsbulletinsnewslettersreading pages
Chrome
no kicker, no eyebrow; the title stands alone.
Palette
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| background | #FFFFFF |
| ink | #111111 |
| body | #2E2E2E |
| hairline | #111111 |
| gridline | #E4E4E4 |
| primary | #C0182B |
| muted | #B0B0B0 |
| positive | #2E2E2E |
| negative | #C0182B |
Fonts
Display: Georgia,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 correspondent's voice. SAGA is the newspaper of the programme: the headline tells the story, the lede gives who, what and when, and the piece is written for the archive. A reader a year from now, with no context, should understand what happened in week 31 and why it mattered.
- Name the week in the lede.Explicit time is the law of this language, and the archive depends on it.
- Let people and crews do things."The team recovered two days" is a story. The passive version is a shrug.
- Carry the arc: say what changed since the last issue.Continuity is the product. A digest with no memory is a list.
- No corporate passive."It was decided that" hides the decider, and journalism names them.
- No vague roundups.If an item earned a line, it earned a fact.
- No bullet dumps in the lead story.The lead is prose. Bullets belong in the back-page briefs.
This week saw various developments across multiple workstreams with progress being made in several areas.
Week 31: the northern corridor reopened after the bridge repair, releasing 14 trucks held since 18 July.
The language in use
Six chart objects rendered from the same golden data as every other language. Only the token file differs.