/human-draw

A figure is a material. It is characters on a monospace grid, read by a person scanning rather than parsing. Everything here is about what that material can actually hold.

Two facts set every rule below.

1. The grid is about 80 columns wide and one character deep. Cross it and the terminal wraps the line, shearing the figure into unreadable halves.
2. The reader stops wherever they stop — the family's stopping-point doctrine, references/human-contract.md §2. So a figure must be correct at a glance and still correct on a second look.

Placement: the rule that matters most

Three parts, always in this order.