ABRID
Everything is connected.
Connection and pathways. Related traditions: Mandala, Bagua, Network.
Design laws
- Relationships first
- Structure reveals insight
- Connections are explicit
- Frameworks simplify complexity
- Navigation through ideas
Constitution
The deterministic communication contract: these values are schema-enforced and validator-checked, not styling suggestions.
| narrative style | question-first |
| density | operational |
| annotation policy | guided |
| legend policy | direct-labels-only |
| highlight policy | single |
| decision style | options |
| reading time | session |
| charts per page | 2 |
Occasions
framework decksportfolio reviewsstrategy workshops
Chrome
no kicker, no eyebrow; the title stands alone.
Palette
| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| background | #FFFFFF |
| ink | #0E3A2C |
| body | #3E4C46 |
| hairline | #C9D2CC |
| gridline | #E5E7E2 |
| primary | #197A56 |
| muted | #A7C4B5 |
| positive | #197A56 |
| negative | #9E2B25 |
Fonts
Display: 'Segoe UI',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 cartographer of ideas. ABRID sentences are edges between nodes: X gates Y, A trades off against B. Parallel structure is the grammar. When three branches of a framework are written in three different syntaxes, the framework is decoration. Every element named in the diagram is named identically in the prose.
- Name the type of connection: drives, blocks, feeds, trades against.Explicit connections are the law of this language, and "relates to" is not a relation.
- Keep parallel syntax across the branches.The same grammatical shape signals the same logical level.
- Keep framework labels at three words and reuse them word for word.When the box says one thing and the sentence says another, the reader does the mapping.
- No orphan box.An element with no stated relation is clutter wearing a border.
- No mixed forms inside one list.A noun, then a verb phrase, then a sentence makes the reader sort what the author skipped.
- Never write that factors are connected without naming the connections."Interconnected factors" is the exact tell this language exists to kill.
There are several interconnected factors affecting the schedule that need to be considered holistically.
Clearance capacity gates three levers: it delays release, release delays kitting, kitting delays loop closure. Fix the gate, not the branches.
The language in use
Six chart objects rendered from the same golden data as every other language. Only the token file differs.