About Gauge House

What we are for

Dashboards compress a lot of meaning into a few panels. Our job is to slow that compression down. We explain what each part of a panel says, what it leaves out, and how its colors and layout shape a reader's first impression.

We have three kinds of reader in mind. One checks a market dashboard now and then and wants fewer surprises. One builds or reviews those dashboards for a team. One simply wants to know what a color is doing on the screen in front of them.

How we write

• We define a term before we use it, and we use the same term the same way throughout.
• We name the baseline, the unit, and the window whenever they matter to the sentence.
• We prefer plain verbs to the jargon of the trade.
• We say when a question has no single answer, and we describe the range of sensible answers instead.

How we handle numbers

This site contains no live market data, no market feed, and no network requests. The figures you see are either fixed definitions, such as the formula for a percentage change or the thresholds in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or illustrations that we label as illustrations.

We do not forecast prices. We do not publish a figure that we cannot explain, and we do not use a number to make a point more persuasive than the evidence allows.

What we will not do

We do not give personal investment, tax, legal, or medical advice. We do not recommend any asset, and we do not rate or review any product, service, or platform. We do not publish testimonials, and we do not accept payment for placement.

If you need advice about your own situation, a licensed professional is the right person to ask. Our field guide can help you frame the questions you bring to that conversation.

Accessibility commitments

Every page works with a keyboard, and every control has a visible name. Color is never the only signal. Text and meaningful graphics are measured against the contrast thresholds in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Motion is removed for readers who ask for less of it, and every page still reads properly with scripts turned off.

Our palette

The site is built from six colors. All of them share a warm hue close to forty degrees, so the paper reads as paper and the ink reads as ink. The list below gives each color, its role, and the ratio of its main pairing, measured with the same formula the contrast lab uses.

• Paper

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  Page background. Ink on paper measures 13.54 to 1.

• Panel

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  Open panels and sample surfaces. Ink on panel measures 12.16 to 1.

• Ink

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  Body text, rules, and control outlines. Paper on ink measures 13.54 to 1.

• Muted

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  Captions and secondary text. Muted on paper measures 7.31 to 1.

• Ochre

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  Links and small labels. Ochre on paper measures 5.53 to 1, and on panel 4.97 to 1.

• Amber

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  Highlights and hover states. Ink on amber measures 9.25 to 1. Amber is never used for text on paper.