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Mon 14 Sep, to 10:34 · vs yesterday, to the same hour: Sun 13 Sep, to 10:34

Today Yesterday 7 days 28 days This month Last month 90 days 12 months

What the gate came to: how much was checked, how much was right the first time, which rules actually caught something and who sent the cleanest work. Counts of rules, never a grade for anybody's design.

Files checked

The gate

—

1 in the comparison — under 8, so no change is printed.

Passed first time

Computed

0.0%

—

Under 8 files — not printed

Issues per file

The gate

0.31

—

4 findings in all

Hours to a decision

The gate

0.7 h

—

The gate takes under a minute. The rest is a person's diary.

Sent back

The gate

—

1 in the comparison — under 8, so no change is printed.

From outside

The gate

—

Agency, printer and supplier files, through the same door

The day, in short

Too few files in this window to divide — under 8 and a percentage is a rumour. The counts below are still counts.
The book did not change inside this window. Its last section, v7, arrived on 2026-08-04 and has been absorbed: the printer's specification came in as rules: ink ceiling, bleed, safety margin, embedded faces, colour space.
75 per cent of everything caught came from three rules — body type reaches 4.5:1 against its ground, nothing set under the surface's smallest size, lot or batch mark. A book with a long tail and a short head is a book that is mostly teaching three things.
54 of 58 rules caught nothing at all. That is not an argument for deleting them: a rule nobody breaks any more is usually a rule everybody has learned, and the year after it is deleted is the year it comes back.

Files checked

Everything that came through the gate, inside and outside, against the same length of time before it.

The gate

The rulebook did not change inside this window, so there are no hairlines on it. Widen the period to twelve months and the days the book grew a section appear on the line, each with the fortnight of failures that followed it.

Who sent it

Files through the gate in this period, by whoever put them there.

The gate

Content Studio
862%
In-house designer
215%
The agency
18%
A packaging supplier
18%
The web store
18%

The three outside senders are a small share of the files and most of the round trips. An agency has the brief and the deadline and not the type licences; a printer changes artwork to make it print, which is its job and is also what the press rules are for.

Which part of the book caught it

Findings in this period, by the shelf of the rulebook the rule sits on.

Brand rulebook

Type
250%
Colour
125%
The law, on a label
125%

A shelf catching nothing is not a shelf doing nothing. The law section is quiet most months and it is the one where a miss is a recall rather than a reprint.

What actually caught things

Every row is a rule in the book, by its own key. Add a rule and it appears here; delete one and it goes.

The rules that fired

The twelve rules that caught the most, 4 findings between them. The share is of everything caught in the period, so these do not add up to a hundred.

The gate

Rule	Shelf	How it is tested	Caught	Share	vs before
Body type reaches 4.5:1 against its ground	Colour	Measured	1	25%	new
Nothing set under the surface's smallest size	Type	Measured	1	25%	new
Lot or batch mark	The law, on a label	Read	1	25%	new
Mandatory text at 1.2 mm x-height or more	Type	Measured	1	25%	new

Every rule in this table is one that is measured or read, and that is not a coincidence: a rule a vision model raises is a question rather than a finding, and it is not counted here until a person has agreed with it. The same goes for the lines on the checklist. What is left is arithmetic and matching, which is exactly why these are the rules allowed to stop a file on their own.

The period. Too little before it to compare with

Mon 14 Sep, to 10:34 · against Sun 13 Sep, to 10:34

Computed

Files checked
Everything that came through the gate, inside and outside.
13nothing before it
Passed first time
Nothing measured or read came back broken on the first round.
0.0%nothing before it
Sent back
Each one with the findings and the rule behind them attached.
2nothing before it
Issues per file
Counted over every file, not only over the ones that broke something.
0.31nothing before it
Hours from arriving to a decision
The gate finishes in under a minute; this is how long the answer waited on a person.
0.7 hnothing before it
Rules that caught something
Out of 58 in the book. This is how much of it earned its place this period.
4nothing before it
Rules that caught nothing
Not the same as rules doing nothing. Most of these are the ones everybody has already learned.
54nothing before it

Rule

Shelf

How it is tested

Caught

vs before

Body type reaches 4.5:1 against its ground

Colour

Measured

25%

new

Nothing set under the surface's smallest size

Type

Measured

25%

new

Lot or batch mark

The law, on a label

Read

25%

new

Mandatory text at 1.2 mm x-height or more

Type

Measured

25%

new

The period. Too little before it to compare with

Mon 14 Sep, to 10:34 · against Sun 13 Sep, to 10:34

Computed

Files checked
Everything that came through the gate, inside and outside.
13nothing before it
Passed first time
Nothing measured or read came back broken on the first round.
0.0%nothing before it
Sent back
Each one with the findings and the rule behind them attached.
2nothing before it
Issues per file
Counted over every file, not only over the ones that broke something.
0.31nothing before it
Hours from arriving to a decision
The gate finishes in under a minute; this is how long the answer waited on a person.
0.7 hnothing before it
Rules that caught something
Out of 58 in the book. This is how much of it earned its place this period.
4nothing before it
Rules that caught nothing
Not the same as rules doing nothing. Most of these are the ones everybody has already learned.
54nothing before it