Editorial illustrations — claim → geometry

The look you want (monotykamary.com, linear.app/now) is not a chart library. It is a discipline: every figure is a single argument rendered as geometry, framed in a hairline box, captioned in mono uppercase with the meaning, drawn in grayscale with exactly one accent. Get the discipline right and any shape reads as "house." Copy templates blindly and it reads as slop.

Do not reach for a fixed set of charts. Reach for the method below and build the figure this specific sentence needs. The six worked examples in references/worked-examples.md are proof the method generalizes, not a menu.

The core move

Take the one sentence the figure must prove. Find that sentence's structure. Render the structure so the reader believes the sentence before reading it.

The caption is the thesis, written first. If you can't state the figure's claim in one sentence, you don't have a figure yet, you have decoration. Stop.