The Daily Visual

engine skeleton · phase 0 ·

Engine skeleton · Synthetic series · Phase 0

The engine renders.

This page is the first output of The Daily Visual's pipeline: a chart drawn server-side as SVG, styled entirely by design tokens, correct in light and dark mode, readable with JavaScript switched off. The series below is synthetic — real data arrives when the first source adapters land.

Engine test pattern (synthetic demonstration series) Engine test pattern (synthetic demonstration series), daily series in index points, 181 observations ending 2026-08-26. 146 100120140160180MarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugust
Synthetic demonstration data — not a real series data to 2026-08-26

42 KiB chart bundle · ~0.09 ms per render · 0 JS required

What this proves: the type system (Newsreader, IBM Plex Sans, and a monospace data register), the token palette, and the chart anatomy — thin marks, recessive grid, a labelled last value, and a source line that will carry each provider's required attribution — all survive the trip through the build and the edge.

The build