# Scientific — style guide for coding agents

> Generated from the Aesthetary record for **Scientific**.
> Research: **Partly sourced** · Build guidance: recorded in 4 of 8 research dimensions.
> 9 sources attached.

## How to use this

Paste this file into your agent as context before asking it to design or build something in this visual language. It states what is established, what is our interpretation, and what nobody has established. Treat all three differently.

**The most important section is "Not researched yet".** Its purpose is to stop you and your agent inventing rules that sound right and are not recorded anywhere.

## What this language is

**Defining:** Figure numbering, inline data plots, numbered references

**Recognise it by:** Numbered figures cited in reading order, each carrying a caption below it that defines panels, units and sample sizes so the figure stands alone, inline data plots with both axes labelled by variable and unit, colour that encodes data rather than decorating, and numbered references that resolve. The diagnostic condition is that the apparatus is checkable: numbering, captions and references form a verification path. Archival orders a collection for retrieval; this orders evidence for testing. Institutional claims authority by appearance rather than by verifiability.

**Family:** Technical & Documentary
**Era:** modernist, contemporary
**Native medium:** print

**Scope:** The visual register of the journal research paper: figures and tables numbered by first citation, self-sufficient captions, data plots, as Aesthetary's language drawn from manuscript requirements (ICMJE); colour-encodes-data is our rule.

## What it is arguing

A claim is only as good as the reader's ability to test it. Numbered figures, captions that stand alone, and resolvable citations exist so a sceptical reader can follow every assertion back to its evidence without taking the author's word.

**It refuses:** Refuses persuasion by design, and refuses any visual emphasis that is not warranted by the data.

## What it is not

Commonly confused with these. Getting the difference right matters more than getting the surface right:

- Institutional
- Archival

## Established rules

Grouped by what kind of claim each is. A requirement of the language and our own interpretation are not interchangeable.

**How to read each rule.** Every rule states two separate things, and neither stands in for the other:

- **Kind of claim** (the heading): Documented · Source not yet verified · Documented · Source attached · From our catalogue entry · Documented · Source attached · Our reading · Documented · Source attached · Seen in the work.
- **Evidence** (how it is established): Graded by our research brief · No source attached (`DOCUMENTED`) · From our catalogue entry (`SUPPORTED`) · Our reading (`CURATORIAL`) · Not researched yet (`UNKNOWN`) · No grade recorded (no grade in the record). Where a claim has its own canonical label, the Evidence line gives that label instead of the grade.
- **Product area**: which of the twelve areas the rule belongs to (Layout, Typography, Color, Imagery, Surface, Interface, Motion, Motif, Technique, Form, Hierarchy, Density), mapped from its raw area label in bold. "Context" means the rule is about the Aesthetic (its name, origin, lineage) rather than a part of the design. "Not mapped" means the raw area has no single area yet.
- The code in brackets is the `grade` field at `implementationConstraints.tokenRules.value.rules[].provenance.grade` in https://aesthetary.com/data/scientific.json. "From our catalogue entry" means: Stated in Aesthetary’s existing catalogue entry. An outside source is named only where one is linked to the claim.

### Documented · Source not yet verified

- **layout** — Composition: column-width panels; figure + caption unit.
  - Kind of claim: Documented · Source not yet verified · Evidence: Documented · Source not yet verified · Product area: Layout
- **imagery** — Imagery: inline data plots, not photography.
  - Kind of claim: Documented · Source not yet verified · Evidence: Documented · Source not yet verified · Product area: Imagery

### Documented · Source attached

- **hierarchy** — Rank by order of first citation. Figure 1 is first because the text mentions it first — an ordering the author does not choose aesthetically at all.
  - Kind of claim: Documented · Source attached · Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Product area: Hierarchy

### From our catalogue entry

_Carried over from Aesthetary's original catalogue entry. The reasoning behind it was never recorded._

- **color** — Carries a hard rule: colour encodes rather than decorates. Any hue not carrying data is a violation. Bar axes start at zero.
  - Kind of claim: From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry · Product area: Color

### Documented · Source attached

- **apparatus** — Figures are numbered in order of first mention and each caption makes its figure stand alone — panels, units and sample sizes defined in the caption, not in the image.
  - Kind of claim: Documented · Source attached · Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Product area: not mapped

### Our reading

- **color** — Colour encodes data or it is absent. A hue that carries no variable is decoration and breaks the register's only claim.
  - Kind of claim: Our reading · Evidence: Our reading · Product area: Color

## Found in research

What research established from sources Aesthetary opened and checked. Each line names its area, how it is known, and where it is scoped. "Seen in the work" means the source documents particular works or products rather than the Aesthetic as a whole.

- **Typography** — Lettering on figures should be clear and consistent throughout, and large enough to remain legible when the figure is reduced for publication.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:typography-1` · Covers figure lettering only; ICMJE (biomedical) and AIAA (aerospace) both state it.
- **Typography** — Titles and explanations are set in the legend, not lettered onto the figure itself.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:typography-2` · Covers ICMJE; AIAA likewise forbids repeating the caption inside the figure.
- **Typography** — At Nature, figure lettering is sans-serif, preferably Helvetica or Arial, set small (5 to 7 pt), live and editable rather than outlined, and not coloured.
  - Evidence: Seen in the work · Claim: `kcc:typography-3` · Covers one publisher (Nature) only.
- **Typography** — Publishers do not agree on a typeface class for figure lettering: PLOS ONE admits a serif (Times) alongside Arial and sets a larger size range (8 to 12 pt), and AIAA asks for at least 8 pt at column width.
  - Evidence: Seen in the work · Claim: `kcc:typography-4` · Covers shows the sans-serif rule is house style, not a field-wide convention.
- **Typography** — Captions in AIAA journals are short (20 to 25 words) and centred beneath the figure.
  - Evidence: Seen in the work · Claim: `kcc:typography-5` · Covers AIAA only; biomedical captions per ICMJE/CASRAI are expected to be full, self-sufficient legends.
- **Technique** — Figures are produced by the authors and often printed as supplied, because many journals do not redraw them.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:technique-1`
- **Technique** — The older print route was figures professionally drawn and photographed, or supplied as photographic-quality prints.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:technique-2` · Covers print submissions.
- **Technique** — Publishers such as Nature ask authors not to rasterize line art or text and to supply editable, unflattened vector artwork where possible.
  - Evidence: Seen in the work · Claim: `kcc:technique-3` · Covers Nature; PLOS accepts TIFF or EPS.
- **Technique** — Line drawings must meet a minimum line weight and contrast so they survive reproduction.
  - Evidence: Seen in the work · Claim: `kcc:technique-4` · Covers AIAA.
- **Form** — The governing specification addresses the manuscript and its electronic versions (sections, layering, cross-linking), not any three-dimensional object; no opened source specifies binding, format or handling.
  - Evidence: Documented · Source attached · Claim: `kcc:form-1`

## Positions by area

The overall position recorded for each area. "No overall position recorded" means rules exist for the area but no position above them; the rules still apply. It is not the same as "Not established", which means nobody has researched the area.

- **Layout** — Specified
- **Typography** — Specified
- **Color** — Specified
- **Imagery** — Specified
- **Technique** — Specified
- **Surface** — Outside this language. The area does not apply; this is not a gap in the research.
- **Interface** — Outside this language. The area does not apply; this is not a gap in the research.
- **Motion** — Outside this language. The area does not apply; this is not a gap in the research.
- **Motif** — Outside this language. The area does not apply; this is not a gap in the research.

## Design grammar — web primitives

A starting grammar for a website in the Scientific register: figures numbered by first citation, captions that stand alone, colour that carries a variable or nothing, and lettering that survives reduction.

Three kinds of line: **On the record** names a rule this record holds (its wording is under Established rules) and states what it becomes on the web. **Web translation** is Aesthetary's choice for the web, derived from the rules it cites; change it if you have a reason, keep the cited rule. **Not specified by the source** means the research reached this but the sources say nothing about it; **Not researched yet** means the research has not reached it yet. Either way, follow the instruction and do not invent a rule. Structured version: `designGrammar` in data/scientific.json.

### Colour

| Role | Value | Contrast | Use | Kind |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| paper | `#FCFCFA` | — | The page ground. It carries no variable. | Web translation |
| ink | `#1E2226` | 15.6:1 | Text, axes, rules. | Web translation |
| ink-2 | `#555C63` | 6.6:1 | Captions, labels, the running head. | Web translation |
| rule | `#C9CDD1` | — | Hairlines around figure units and tables. Never text. | Web translation |
| link | `#2C6E8A` | 5.5:1 | References and cross-references that resolve. | Web translation |

Other accents the record supports:

- data, category 1: `#2C6E8A`
- data, category 2: `#4E9C81`
- data, category 3: `#7A6AA8`
- data, category 4: `#B08A3E`

- **On the record · Our reading** · `token_rule:sc-r2` → Colour encodes data or it is absent; a hue that carries no variable is a violation.
- **On the record · From our catalogue entry** · `token_rule:color-5` → Start bar axes at zero.
- **Web translation** — Give each data category one hue and keep it on every figure. _Why:_ Colour that encodes a variable must encode the same variable wherever it appears. (`token_rule:sc-r2`)
- **Not specified by the source** — The sources do not specify a page palette. _Instead:_ The paper, ink and link blue are this room's; choose your own and keep them carrying nothing.

### Typography

Family: declared free by the record; this room sets sentences in Source Serif and figure lettering in Karla. Stack: `"SourceSerifX", Georgia, serif`

| Role | Size | Weight | Line height | Case | Tracking | Measure | Use |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| title | clamp(1.5rem, 3.4vw, 2.1rem) | 600 | 1.25 | not specified | not specified | 44rem | The paper's title. |
| body | 1rem | 400 | 1.72 | not specified | not specified | 44rem | Running text, in the serif. |
| caption | 0.8rem | 400 | 1.6 | not specified | not specified | — | Legends, labels and references, in the sans. |
| figure | 10.5px at column width | 600 | 1 | not specified | not specified | — | Lettering inside plots: axis titles, ticks, values. |

- **On the record · Documented** · `claim:kcc:typography-1` → Letter figures clearly and consistently, large enough to stay legible when the figure is reduced.
- **On the record · Seen in the work** · `claim:kcc:typography-3` → Keep figure lettering live and editable, not outlined.
- **Web translation** — Set figure lettering in a sans and sentences in a serif. _Why:_ One publisher asks for sans-serif figure lettering; the running-text face is declared free. The pairing is this room's. (`claim:kcc:typography-3`, `claim:freedom-typography`)
- **Not specified by the source** — The sources set no field-wide face or size. _Instead:_ Publishers disagree (Nature 5 to 7 pt sans; PLOS admits Times at 8 to 12 pt). Pick one and hold it on every figure.

### Grid and layout

One reading column. Figures and tables sit at its width as units with their captions, placed after the paragraph that first cites them.

Tokens: measure `44rem` · figure-width `100% of the column`

- **On the record · Documented · Source not yet verified** · `token_rule:layout-3` → Compose in column-width panels, each a figure-and-caption unit.
- **On the record · Documented · Source attached** · `token_rule:hierarchy-13` → Order figures by first citation in the text.
- **Web translation** — Place each figure directly after the paragraph that first cites it. _Why:_ First citation sets the order; placing the figure there keeps the reader's check one glance away. (`token_rule:hierarchy-13`, `token_rule:sc-r1`)
- **Not specified by the source** — The sources do not specify a multi-column grid. _Instead:_ A single column is the room's choice; state it if you add a second.

### Shape and geometry

Tokens: radius `0` · hairline `1px solid #C9CDD1` · rule-heavy `2px solid #1E2226` · axis-stroke `1.25px`

- **On the record · Seen in the work** · `claim:kcc:technique-4` → Draw lines heavy and contrasting enough to survive reproduction.
- **Web translation** — Divide with rules only: a heavy rule to open the paper and the references, hairlines around figures, no boxes or radius. _Why:_ The register carries no motif or surface vocabulary; rules are the apparatus, not ornament. (`claim:motif-reason`, `claim:surface-reason`)

### Imagery

- **On the record · Documented · Source not yet verified** · `token_rule:imagery-7` → Use inline data plots, not photography.
- **On the record · Seen in the work** · `claim:kcc:technique-3` → Supply line art and text as vectors; do not rasterize them.
- **Web translation** — Draw plots as inline SVG with both axes labelled by variable and unit. _Why:_ Vector artwork is what publishers ask for, and an inline SVG keeps its lettering live. (`claim:kcc:technique-3`, `token_rule:sc-r1`)

### The apparatus

Numbers, captions and references form one verification path: every figure is cited, every caption stands alone, every reference resolves.

- **On the record · Documented · Source attached** · `token_rule:sc-r1` → Number figures and tables in order of first mention, and cite every number in the text.
- **On the record · Documented · Source attached** · `token_rule:hierarchy-13` → Rank by order of first citation, not by importance.
- **Web translation** — Make every reference a link that resolves. _Why:_ The register exists so a sceptical reader can follow each assertion to its evidence; on screen that is a working link. (`intent`)

### Components

Anatomy, tokens and states below are Web translation: Aesthetary's specification for the screen. Each value line after them says whether it restates a rule this record holds.

#### Button

A labelled control in the figure face, ruled by a hairline, that says exactly what it does.

- Anatomy: 1px rule; label in the sans figure face, sentence case; no fill, no icon
- Tokens: border `1px solid #C9CDD1` · color `#2C6E8A` · background `transparent` · radius `0`
- State, default: Hairline rule, label in the link blue.
- State, hover: Label underlined.
- State, focus: 2px link-blue outline, 2px out.
- State, active: Rule darkens to the ink.
- State, disabled: Label in the secondary ink, dashed rule.
- Accessibility: Label names the action in words ("Hide the body text"), never an icon alone.
- Accessibility: Link blue on paper at 5.5:1.
- Accessibility: At least 44px tall.
- **Web translation** — Draw buttons as ruled labels with no fill and no emphasis the action does not need. _Why:_ Refusing emphasis unwarranted by the data extends to the controls: the register allows no decoration. (`token_rule:sc-r2`, `claim:failure-6`)

#### Card

A figure unit: the number, the plot, and a caption beneath it that lets the figure stand alone.

- Anatomy: rule above and below; figure number in bold ("Fig. 3."); inline plot or table; caption below defining panels, units and n
- Tokens: border `1px solid #C9CDD1` · width `column` · caption `below`
- State, default: Hairline rules above and below.
- State, hover: The figure number underlines where the card is a link.
- State, focus: 2px link-blue outline outside the rules.
- Accessibility: The caption is real text, not lettering in the image.
- Accessibility: Charts carry a text alternative or a data table.
- **Web translation** — Set every figure as a unit at column width with its caption. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`token_rule:layout-3`)
- **Web translation** — Number figures in order of first mention; let each caption define its panels, units and sample sizes so the figure stands alone. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`token_rule:sc-r1`)
- **Web translation** — Put titles and explanations in the legend, not lettered onto the figure. _Why:_ The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation. (`claim:kcc:typography-2`)

#### Input

A ruled field with its label above in the figure face and any unit stated beside it.

- Anatomy: 1px ink rule; paper field; label above, sans; unit after the field where one applies; error line below
- Tokens: border `1px solid #1E2226` · background `#FCFCFA` · radius `0` · height `2.75rem`
- State, default: 1px ink rule.
- State, focus: 2px link-blue outline.
- State, error: A line below beginning "Error:", in words; the rule doubles.
- State, disabled: Dashed rule, secondary ink.
- Accessibility: Label is real text above the field.
- Accessibility: Errors are stated in words, never by colour alone.
- **Web translation** — Label every field and state its unit. _Why:_ An axis is labelled with variable and unit; a field that takes a value is labelled the same way. (`token_rule:sc-r1`)
- **Not specified by the source** — The sources do not specify journal forms. _Instead:_ Keep the field plain; do not borrow a submission-system look.

#### Navigation

A numbered contents list: sections in the order the text reaches them, each number citable.

- Anatomy: section numbers in the sans face; titles in the serif; current section marked in words and weight
- Tokens: rule `1px solid #C9CDD1` · current `weight 600`
- State, default: Number, then title, on a hairline.
- State, hover: Title underlined.
- State, focus: 2px link-blue outline.
- State, current: Title set in 600 with aria-current; no colour change.
- Accessibility: aria-current on the current section.
- Accessibility: Numbers are text, so a reader can cite them.
- **Web translation** — Number navigation items in reading order. _Why:_ Rank by order of first citation leaves no aesthetic ordering; a contents list follows the same rule. (`token_rule:hierarchy-13`)

### Motion

- **Web translation** — Do not animate. State changes are instant. _Why:_ A paper does not animate; the record gives motion no place. (`claim:motion-reason`)

### Deliberately not added

- **A page palette** (color): The record rules only that colour encodes data. Ground, ink and link colour are the room's.
- **A typeface** (typography): Typography is declared free; publishers disagree on figure lettering.
- **A column system beyond the column-width figure unit** (gridLayout): Not specified by the source.
- **Interface conventions** (components): The sources do not specify them. The four components are contemporary translations of documented rules.
- **Any position on screen motion** (motion): A paper does not animate. Choosing none is this grammar's translation.

## Coverage — what has been looked at

One row per research dimension a research pass considered. "Not researched yet" (`UNKNOWN`) means exactly that; a dimension can carry an Aesthetary recommendation and still be unresearched, and those are different things.

| Research dimension | Evidence | Resolved by | Carries a rule |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Composition | Specified · Graded by our research brief | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Typography | Specified | Aesthetary decided | yes |
| Hierarchy | Specified · Graded by our research brief | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Colour | Specified · From our catalogue entry | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Density | Not specified by the source | Aesthetary decided | no |
| Imagery | Specified · Graded by our research brief | follows the recorded claim | yes |
| Form / motif / surface / technique | Not specified by the source: form, motif, surface · Specified: technique | — | yes |
| Motion | Not specified by the source | — | no |

Unresearched: Typography. Where a rule appears for one of these it is Aesthetary's implementation recommendation, not a property of the language, and its Evidence line above says so.

## Not researched yet

Nobody has established a position for this language on:

- Form

**Do not fill these in.** An absent position is absent research, not permission and not a blank for you to complete. If the work needs a decision in one of these areas, make it on other grounds and do not attribute it to this language.

## Grade your own work

18 checks: 9 mechanically testable, 8 needing a person to look, 0 needing a source Aesthetary does not hold, 1 with no recorded position. 4 further research dimensions produced no rule (Typography, Density, Form / motif / surface / technique, Motion). This rubric is silent on them. Scores do not add up. A failure against a required rule and a departure from something we invented are not the same result, and no total should let them cancel.

### Recognition — does this read as the intended Aesthetic?

- **[visual_human · recognition signature · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Strip every logo, word and borrowed image out of your work, then show it to someone who knows the collection. Do they land on this Aesthetic? The signature to hold is: Numbered figures cited in reading order, each carrying a caption below it that defines panels, units and sample sizes so the figure stands alone, inline data plots with both axes labelled by variable and unit, colour that encodes data rather than decorating, and numbered references that resolve. The diagnostic condition is that the apparatus is checkable: numbering, captions and references form a verification path. Archival orders a collection for retrieval; this orders evidence for testing. Institutional claims authority by appearance rather than by verifiability.
  - _If it fails:_ The work may be competent and still read as a different Aesthetic, or as none. Nothing below matters until this passes.

### Fidelity — are its defining rules present?

- **[visual_human · Documented · Source not yet verified · Evidence: Documented · Source not yet verified]** Does your work hold this? Composition: column-width panels; figure + caption unit.
  - _If it fails:_ The result is not this Aesthetic. This is a requirement of the language, not a preference.
- **[visual_human · Documented · Source attached · Evidence: Documented · Source attached]** Does your work hold this? Rank by order of first citation. Figure 1 is first because the text mentions it first — an ordering the author does not choose aesthetically at all.
  - _If it fails:_ The result is not this Aesthetic. This is a requirement of the language, not a preference.
- **[visual_human · Documented · Source not yet verified · Evidence: Documented · Source not yet verified]** Does your work hold this? Imagery: inline data plots, not photography.
  - _If it fails:_ The result is not this Aesthetic. This is a requirement of the language, not a preference.

### Implementation — were those rules translated appropriately into this medium?

- **[visual_human · From our catalogue entry · Evidence: From our catalogue entry]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Carries a hard rule: colour encodes rather than decorates. Any hue not carrying data is a violation. Bar axes start at zero.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · Documented · Source attached · Evidence: Documented · Source attached]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Figures are numbered in order of first mention and each caption makes its figure stand alone — panels, units and sample sizes defined in the caption, not in the image.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.
- **[visual_human · Our reading · Evidence: Our reading]** Your work may depart from this — but knowingly, not by accident. Colour encodes data or it is absent. A hue that carries no variable is decoration and breaks the register's only claim.
  - _If it fails:_ A defensible departure, and you should be able to say why you made it.

### Avoidance — known failure modes, neighbour drift, cloning

- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No decorative colour.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No truncated bar axes.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No unnumbered figures.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No caption that merely repeats the text.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No photography as primary imagery.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[mechanical · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: No emphasis unwarranted by data.
  - _If it fails:_ A failure mode recorded in our research brief: recorded judgement about what weakens this Aesthetic, not a requirement of the language.
- **[visual_human · recorded failure mode · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Have you made any of these changes? Each one moves the work into a neighbouring Aesthetic: Against Archival: testing versus retrieval. Both ordered and apparatus-heavy; the purposes are opposite. Against Institutional: verifiability versus the appearance of authority. Anti-signature: figure numbers that cite nothing. Decorative colour. A truncated bar axis, which the convention treats as misleading.
  - _If it fails:_ You have built the neighbour. That may be fine — but name which Aesthetic you are in.
- **[mechanical · declared closure · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: Not open: decorative colour.
  - _If it fails:_ This one is closed, not open. The record says generation must not go here.
- **[mechanical · declared closure · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: Not open: non-functional apparatus.
  - _If it fails:_ This one is closed, not open. The record says generation must not go here.
- **[mechanical · declared closure · Evidence: No grade recorded]** Check your work against this: Not open: truncated axes..
  - _If it fails:_ This one is closed, not open. The record says generation must not go here.

### Accessibility — the Aesthetic preserved without its inaccessible practice

- **[unassessable · no recorded position · Evidence: Not researched yet (`UNKNOWN`)]** Does this Aesthetic conflict with any usability floor? Nobody has recorded one for it.
  - _If it fails:_ Nothing — and that is the problem. An unrecorded conflict is not an absent one. Hold AA on reading matter and decide the rest on other grounds.

**Not covered at all:** Typography: Specified; Density: Not specified by the source; Form / motif / surface / technique: Not specified by the source: form, motif, surface · Specified: technique; Motion: Not specified by the source. These research dimensions produced no rule, so there is no check. Treat them as unscored, never as passed and never as failed.

## Rules for the agent

1. Do not invent rules for any area listed under **Not researched yet**.
2. Do not treat an absent position as permission to do anything you like — say that the language has no position, and decide on other grounds.
3. Keep our interpretations separable from the language's own requirements. If asked to justify a choice, cite which kind of claim it came from.
4. If you need something this record does not contain, say so rather than producing a confident answer from the aesthetic's name.
5. When you self-score against "Grade your own work", score only checks marked `mechanical`. Declare `visual_human` and `evidence_dependent` checks unjudged rather than guessing, and never score an `unassessable` one.
6. Evidence "Not researched yet" (`UNKNOWN`) is never a failure. It means nobody researched the dimension, so departing from what is written there costs nothing and must not be reported as a defect. "No grade recorded" is not a grade either: do not treat it as our decision or as an outside source.
7. In **Design grammar**, a "Web translation" line is our choice for the web and may be changed with a reason; the rules it cites may not. Never present a translation as a property of the language.

## Provenance

- Record: `scientific` · status `draft` · research `partly_researched`
- Full structured record: https://aesthetary.com/data/scientific.json
- Human-readable record: https://aesthetary.com/a/scientific.html
- This file is a snapshot. The record may have changed since; check the page above.

_Aesthetary is an alpha. Where a page says nothing, nobody has done the work yet._