gates

What the gates measure

Nine checks refuse a deck. The rest report. Both read the render, not the file, wherever a render exists.

Refuse publication

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `unreadable` | text-to-ground contrast ratio under 2.0 | | `word_collision` | words overlap over 40% of a word's area | | `displaced_copy` | copy landed outside its column, past 3.0pt | | `emptied_page` | a page carrying nothing | | `placeholder_copy` | a cloned page still says the template's own words | | `template_underlay` | the template's layer shows through the page | | `page_budget` | more pages than the brief agreed | | `language` | a page not in the brief's language | | `citation` | a claim from a source with no source named |

Emptiness

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `sparse_container` | a card or panel filled under 35%, or with over 0.45in clear on all sides, or 1.5in larger than its contents | | `unanchored_page` | no type at 20pt or more, no figure over 20% of the page, under 0.35in of ink | | `thin_copy` | under 150 characters on a content page, 120 on a card page, 90 on a data page | | `undivided_body` | several blocks of body copy with nothing between them | | `excessive_whitespace` | measured off the render |

Type

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `type_floor` | body under 14.0pt; hard floor 10.8pt; footers 8.0pt | | `type_scale` | body between the floor and 16.0pt, off the ramp | | `type_drift` | one repeated box rendered at sizes differing by more than 1.12x | | `row_type_drift` | members of one row differing by more than 1.10x | | `outranked_title` | a title under 1.4x the line beneath it |

Alignment

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `flush_drift` | blocks declared flush, rendered over 1.0pt apart | | `sibling_drift` | the same element of side-by-side containers, over 2.0pt apart | | `grid_drift` | two column grids on one page, gaps 0.06in, from 3 rows | | `off_page` | content outside the canvas |

Figures

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `figure_distortion` | aspect ratio off by more than 1.20x | | `figure_crop` | over half the picture cropped away | | `figure_undersized` | a hero under 40% of the body, a mark over 5% | | `washed_backdrop` | a picture over 80% of the page at 12-80% opacity | | `covered_shape` | something painted over 60% of what was drawn before it | | `over_layout_art` | content on top of the layout's own artwork |

Habits that read as machine-made

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `equal_card_habit` | 3 cards in a row spanning 60% of the width, on 35% of pages, from 2 pages | | `symmetry_habit` | under 40% of pages placing anything off-centre | | `repeated_layout` | one prototype on over 60% of pages, from 4 pages | | `same_mark` | 5 or more identical marks | | `rule_strike` | a rule under 4.5pt tall and over 36pt wide serving no grid | | `banded_table`, `native_table`, `wide_table` | a table in Office's own dress | | `flat_formula` | one layout formula repeated down the deck |

Furniture

| Check | Criterion | | --- | --- | | `no_footer`, `unnumbered_pages` | from 5 composed pages, under half of them naming themselves | | `no_anchor` | a page with nothing for the eye to land on | | `orphan_line` | one line of a paragraph alone | | `clipped_copy`, `overset_copy`, `spilled_copy`, `box_overflow`, `card_overflow` | copy past the box that holds it |

Order

`ppt_build` refuses without a brief, an intake plan and an outline, in that order. On this route there is no `ppt_build`: the same three decisions are still made before the program is written.