Chinese tea · forecast, radar, hairlines
Thirty-four Chinese teas laid out as intelligence briefs — a navy panel, one cyan hairline for every chart, a flavour radar and a maturity curve, and the leaf photographed in the middle of it.
3 teas · 3 categories
A dossier is honest about its own limits: it names the model, the horizon and the version, and it draws the projection as a dashed line so nobody mistakes it for a measurement. That habit suits Chinese tea better than most retail language, because the useful questions here are about time — how a pile-fermented pu-erh moves over thirty years, how a pan-fired green loses its top note over three. One cyan hairline carries every instrument, so a radar, a curve and a row of liquor discs all sit at the same visual weight and none of them shouts. The type splits the work in two: a light serif for the one thing being claimed, small mono for everything that is data. The leaf is never illustrated, only photographed, and the leader lines hook out actual single leaves so the chart is tied to the material and not to a drawing of it. On white paper the panel disappears and only the instruments remain, which is the version a shop can hang.