Document formats

Every shape a document can take here, shown as itself. Click a picture to open a real page in that shape; the second link carries its rules, either a file in this folder or the skill that builds it for you.

The formats

Sixteen shapes. Those marked rules keep their anatomy in a file beside this page; those marked skill are built for you by a session running that skill.

Long read

rules · registered 09-09-2026

Long read

A serious result read top to bottom by someone who did not ask for it: the title wider than the text it introduces, a quiet index in the left margin that follows where you are, and two controls always in the same place, listen and share. Measured off the OpenAI Navier-Stokes page, which Frank picked as the model for scientific, economic and institutional documents.

Vision paper

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Vision paper

When one thesis has to be argued end to end and read in order. Five numbered sections, each opening with a short summary, and no sidebar: the page is read, not looked up.

Proposal note

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Proposal note

When the ask is a choice between mechanisms. The problem in one line, two to four options with their force and their cost, one recommendation, and the mockups that show it.

Simple table

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Simple table

When the question is how it went, item by item. A band saying what was done, a stat strip that totals the grid below, one grid with a word for each state.

Concept note

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Concept note

When a development opens: what the ideal situation is, why, and a few numbered decisions to answer in one word. The drawing carries it before the words do, so make the drawing first.

Implementation plan

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Implementation plan

When a change to an eRegistrations service is decided. The screens are the contract: the current screen pulled from the live service, the end screens as many as needed, and the build is done when reality matches them.

Itinerary card

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Itinerary card

One card you follow while moving, read at arm's length with your hands full. Each leg is a picture, a rail and three sizes of text, and the last leg changes colour so the end shows without reading.

Teaching page

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Teaching page

When one subject has to be taught on one page to a partner or a government team. The compendium holds every block such a page is built from.

User manual

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User manual

When software needs a manual its users can follow: real screens filled with demo data, captured headless, and rebuilt whenever the software changes.

Venture pack

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Venture pack

When partners have to decide on a new company. Concept note, evidence review, business plan, marketing plan, pilot plan and outward leaflets, written as one family, with options rather than impositions.

Counterpart intake page

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Counterpart intake page

When people in the field have to answer from a phone. A branded page takes their words, their choices, their voice and their documents, keeps every answer on the server, and mails each one as it arrives.

Courrier officiel

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Courrier officiel

When a letter goes to a ministry, an agency or a council of ministers. What is being asked opens the letter, the context comes after, and the reader's own interest is the argument.

Payment brochure

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Payment brochure

When one citizen payment is collected once and shared between several bodies. The drawing shows the split, the grid totals it, and the two ways of paying each body sit side by side.

Law online

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Law online

When a law has to live online article by article, with a stable anchor on each one, so any mention of it elsewhere becomes a link the reader can check.

Service leaflet from law

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Service leaflet from law

When a service or a right has to be explained to citizens: who is eligible, what they get, the procedure, with every condition and step clicking through to its exact article.

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Compte rendu de réunion

After a meeting with a partner institution: who was there, what the meeting was for, the points discussed, and the tasks each side takes away. No page has been captured for this one yet, so it has no picture.

The same formats in a country's own brand

Citizen pages take the country's colours rather than the house tint, so these live in the country folders and open on the Mac. Only the picture travels with the studio.

Lesotho, the business forms compared

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Lesotho, the business forms compared

Every form side by side on one poster, read in seconds, with one takeaway.

Lesotho, which type should I choose

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Lesotho, which type should I choose

The forms weighed against each other for the person choosing, ending in one plain recommendation.

Lesotho, one form explained

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Lesotho, one form explained

A single legal form on one page: what it is, who it suits, what it asks of you.

Comores, the registry checklist

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Comores, the registry checklist

What the registry checks before it registers a company, one control point at a time, each tied to its article.