Voice Lab · portrait marks · 2 October 2026

The portrait chart, two ways

Both charts draw your real readings: 64 from the store, including the Side Quests draft from this morning. The left panel copies what the app draws today. The right panel is the second pass at the proposal, revised from your notes. Each row has a sentence under it, and hovering a dot or ring shows the readings behind it.

Today

As the app draws it

Where you write Where you reach Ink · confirmed Pencil · one source
Work · worth coaching toward Try · worth one experiment Leave · right for this kind of writing
Proposed · second pass

Today's look, every mark named

Where you write Where you reach Your pages disagree; the band spans them Your choices disagree

A line joins the two marks when they sit 15 or more apart. That distance gets a verdict on the right, and you can change it there. Each row's sentence says how many sources stand behind each mark. Hover a mark to see the sentences it was measured from.

Verdict
Second pass · what changed

From your notes

  • Ticks are gone. Hovering a dot or ring now lists the readings behind it, with the sentence each came from.
  • One orange. The ring has a single color. How many sources stand behind a mark is said in the row's sentence.
  • Sentences are always on. Each sentence also says where the reach came from.
  • The kind letters have a key under "Shifts with purpose", and the letters are set a little heavier so they read as labels.
  • Today's grey band is back, now with a single meaning: your pages disagree, and the band spans them. A pale orange band does the same job for your choices.
  • The dashed axis lines and dotted rings stay gone. They were the marks the old legend never explained.
Found in the data

What "where you reach" rests on

Every ring comes from the sitting. Each axis has one or two readings. Seven are pair picks and six are sentences you wrote yourself. None come from paragraphs you admire.

A pair pick isn't a position. The code draws it at a fixed lean, 30 or 70, whichever side you chose. A gap measured to a pair pick depends partly on that convention.

Two rings average opposite picks. On Compressed–Unfolded and Absent–Present, the ring sits at 50, which is between your two choices. The Work gap Atticus listens for is measured to that 50.

Plain–Ornate doesn't hold steady. It sits under "holds across everything you write", yet your readings run from 28 to 86.

For you to react to

Open choices

  1. Does the grey band read clearly now that the legend names it?
  2. Should a gap measured to a single pair pick be coached at all, or should it stay at Try until a second source agrees?
  3. Should a ring built from opposite picks be drawn at all, or replaced by "your choices disagree"?
  4. Should Plain–Ornate move to "Shifts with purpose"?