Target — Decks
Section titled “Target — Decks”[!warning] This file contains no guidance. Nothing in the vault or the monorepo covers this target. Per the NEVER GUESS rule, every line below is a question only Talbot can answer — not a placeholder to be filled in by an agent. Until answered, Design-Principles is the only authority for this target.
Shared questions (also in Print and Reports)
Section titled “Shared questions (also in Print and Reports)”- Print/export color authority. The brand anchors are OKLCH and screen-gamut; no CMYK or spot mapping exists. What governs a deck exported to PDF or printed?
- Fixed-page type scale. The shipped scale is fluid
clamp()keyed to viewport width. A slide is a fixed canvas. Is there a fixed-slide type scale?
Deck-specific questions
Section titled “Deck-specific questions”- What aspect ratio — 16:9, 4:3, or both?
- Authoring tool. Are decks built in a tool (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) or as HTML? This decides whether the design tokens can apply at all, and it is the question everything else depends on.
- Is there a one-idea-per-slide rule, and does F.A.S.T.’s Simple imply a slide-count ceiling?
- Do charts in a deck follow the
datavizskill’s method, the brand palette, or something deck-specific? - Is there a standard opening and closing slide, and does the Cancer50Pledge appear?
- Are speaker notes part of the deliverable or out of scope?
- Which decks exist as a live need right now — the business plan and pitch deck for Jeff and Th are named in the vault as deferred work.
When these get filled in
Section titled “When these get filled in”Borrow before building (Talbot, 2026-08-29). Other artifacts get design guidelines when a real deliverable needs them, and the first move is to find an existing framework, template, or skill that already does this well — not to author one from scratch. Answer the questions above against a borrowed baseline rather than in the abstract.