Documents the dumbbell in type-bar.md's existing Variants section,
alongside grouped and stacked bars. Reference-only, matching the
precedent those two set and the one #100 landed for datalake: no
example assets, no gallery entries.
Not a new visual type. The count stays at 28 and SKILL.md is untouched
-- no selection-table row, no frontmatter hook, no manifest description
change.
Covers layout on the shared 1000x500 composition, an element pattern,
and five honesty rules: no truncated axis, one scale with both endpoints
labelled, the connector is a gap and not a trajectory, a stated row
order, and no imputed or silently dropped endpoints.
Two of those rules live in a formula rather than a drawing, so they ship
as a checker with adversarial fixtures per ADR 0005:
- Domain resolution is exhaustive over sign. A rule phrased as
"all-positive / all-negative" silently drops data that only touches
zero, and drops all-zero data entirely -- where floor == ceil == 0 and
the position formula divides by zero. resolve_domain() partitions the
space, guarantees ceil > floor, and returns a finite fallback span for
all-zero input so every dot lands on the floor.
- Non-text contrast is carried by the boundary, not the fill. Accent on
paper is 2.86:1 skin-wide, and shape redundancy does not waive WCAG
1.4.11, so the solid endpoint takes a 1px ink stroke (11.82:1) and the
connector 55% ink on light / 40% on dark (3.19:1 and 3.24:1). The
checker reads these tokens out of the reference, so prose and
thresholds cannot drift apart.
scripts/test-verify-dumbbell.py covers both polarities: all-zero,
zero-touching, mixed-sign, empty and non-finite input, observed-extremes
truncation, and the sub-3:1 treatments this replaces. Wired into CI and
CONTRIBUTING alongside the treemap and geometry gates.
Other things the geometry and house style forced: the focal bar pattern
(12% tint plus accent stroke) does not survive at a 6px dot, so the pair
separates by fill weight; a 64px row pitch from y=96 overflows the y=420
plot floor at seven rows, so pitch and origin are tabulated per row
count; rgb(45,49,66) IS the dark paper, so light-theme hairlines
composite to 1.000:1 and must invert; label offsets keyed to start/end
put both labels inside the pair on a decreasing row; a value on the
domain floor collided with its category label; and the value axis was
missing the Geist Mono 7px title every other cartesian type carries.
Co-authored-by: 0xDarkMatter <0xDarkMatter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add Treemap as the 28th visual type with light, dark, and editorial variants; area, label, and information-marker verification; synchronized documentation and manifests; and plugin version 2.5.0.
