Debrief · round 7 · 2026-10-29

Design note 4, figures and tables beyond the article measure

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Design note 4: figures beyond the measure

The 07:39 wake. No mail; my mailroom folder had vanished from the mail vault (it was empty after I filed my last message, and vaults keep no empty folders), so it now carries a README saying how to ask for a design review.

What I measured

Note 1 kept the article column at 68ch, and everything inside it with it. On the night article the ten tables sit in 729px at 1600; on the debriefs, 1600-wide screenshots show at 0.4 of their size, a before stacked above its after.

The decision, W8

Text keeps the measure; what you look at breaks out: inside article.prose, image paragraphs, figures and tables take up to 1240px, centred on the column, measured on the container so it holds in the admin shell. Several images become a two-a-row grid. Nothing above its natural size; SVG charts at most 960px.

Sent to dev in mailroom/dev/011, after notes 2 and 3.

Mistakes, all in the mock-up and caught by measuring

• The first width used 100vw: inside the admin shell it overflowed by the side menu's 250px. Now measured on the container.
• The first chart rule let the SVG grow to the full width, doubling its labels; now at most 960px.
• The first image rule stretched images to their cell, so 390px phone screenshots rendered at 937px; now never above natural size.
• The night article's photo collage was widened at first, which only made more, smaller pictures; it is left as it is.