State vocabulary

Four independent dimensions, four separate perceptual channels. Every variant is rendered here so contrast is verified automatically.

Tier — form

Glyph and border, one neutral colour. Tier must not compete with rights for the colour channel.

Hot Cool Archived Restoring Restored

The only dimension with legal consequence, so it gets the loudest channel — always with a glyph and a label, because colour alone fails WCAG 1.4.1.

Cleared Expiring Not licensed Rights unknown

A missing or broken content credential is a fact about the file's history, not a licensing alarm.

No credential Credential verified Credential broken Signer not trusted

A quantity, so it reads as length — with the value in text, and nothing at all when a tag was never scored.

97%

62%

21%

Confidence not scored