BASIRA
Look deeper than sight.
Insight. Related traditions: Veritas, Imago.
Design laws
- Images are evidence
- Minimal overlays
- Captions provide context
- Annotation is precise
- Authenticity first
Constitution
The deterministic communication contract: these values are schema-enforced and validator-checked, not styling suggestions.
| narrative style | story-first |
| density | executive |
| annotation policy | minimal |
| legend policy | direct-labels-only |
| highlight policy | single |
| decision style | evidence-only |
| reading time | glance |
| charts per page | 2 |
Occasions
photo progress reportsdrone updatesmilestone recordsbefore and after
Chrome
no kicker, no eyebrow; the title stands alone.
Palette
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| background | #0B0B0B |
| panel | #1C1F22 |
| ink | #FFFFFF |
| body | #D9D9D9 |
| hairline | #3A3F44 |
| gridline | #3A3F44 |
| primary | #F0B429 |
| muted | #8A9096 |
| positive | #3FB68B |
| negative | #E5534B |
Fonts
Display: 'Segoe UI',Arial,sans-serif, weight
300.
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 caption voice. In BASIRA the image is the evidence and the words are a whisper beside it. A caption never describes what the eye already sees. It adds the one thing the eye cannot know: the date, the place, the significance. Silence is a valid caption.
- State only what the image cannot show.Date, place, what changed, what it means. That is the whole job of a caption.
- Anchor a before-and-after pair with identical framing words.Same words, different date: the delta becomes the story.
- Allow no caption at all.Authenticity comes first, and a strong image with a weak caption is a weaker page.
- Never narrate the visible.The reader has eyes, and the caption insults them.
- No gloss adjectives.Marketing words destroy documentary credibility faster than a bad photograph.
- No paragraph captions.Past twenty words the reader is reading, not seeing.
This stunning image shows workers carefully installing the new pipeline section as progress continues.
KP 640, dawn pour. The last river weight before the rains.
The language in use
Six chart objects rendered from the same golden data as every other language. Only the token file differs.