Four strokes eleven units apart, thirty-eight tall, all with round ends. The rule rises at the angle of a quick hand and stands proud of the strokes on both sides. Where it crosses them, a thin cut of paper separates rule from stroke, so the gate stays clear at sixteen pixels and in one colour.

The mark is not only a logo; it tells the reader where a fact stands.

The name is set in Andada Pro at 760 and outlined, the gate standing a little taller than the capitals with its foot just under the baseline. The dash is the rule at the same weight as the strokes. Keep clear space of one stroke-gap (11 units) all round; below 160 px wide, use the gate alone.

Andada Pro (Huerta Tipográfica, OFL) carries headlines and reading text. Its serifs are sturdy and its figures keep a pen’s swell, so a number in a sentence reads as written. Pathway Extreme (Eduardo Tunni, OFL) is the register: condensed and heavy, its figures are the figures of the machine that numbers ledger pages, and at text width it sets labels, dates and sources. Neither has been used by another TakTek prototype or by the three samples.

The ground is cool white with the faint blue-grey ruling of account-book paper. Ink is near black. Red is the bookkeeper’s rule and appears only where something is counted, closed or corrected. The binding, a deep green-black, holds the footer, the election board and the avatar. Contrast is measured against paper or, for light tones, against ink.

No. · Date · Entry · Source. The first column holds the count on the day a story happened, or stays blank when none was published. A double red rule marks the margin where the entry begins, as on ruled ledger paper. Corners on photographs and controls are soft (8–16 px); rules and strokes have round ends.

Entering the day, the loader, plays once a session: four strokes drop in 120 ms apart, the rule is drawn across them, the date is stamped, and the gate flies to its place in the masthead. A click or key skips it.

The numbering machine: the count’s digits roll one full turn and stop on their figure, each wheel a beat after the last.

The correction: earlier counts are struck through one after another before the current one settles. The tally writes itself in gate by gate as it scrolls into view. Pages cross-fade. With reduced motion all of it is still.

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Photographs are shown as taken, with soft corners and a caption that names the place, the date, the photographer and the licence. A photo appears only with a story it actually shows: a town, a building, a march. The register of names carries no photographs of the dead.