Labels

A value MUST sit at the intersection of exactly the labels that locate it: its category's row and its series' column. Dimensions stay independent — 2024 in the row and Revenue in the column, never one label 2024 - Revenue.

Each label is one printed string, copied whole — SEA, > 15000, Option-Adjusted Spread (OAS), REDBIKE (Akira), first-day-of-month price. Parentheses printed inside a legend entry are part of the legend text and MUST be kept.

The no-units requirement forbids importing unit text from elsewhere on the page into a label. Where the axis corner prints (millions of euros) and the tick prints 2024, the label is 2024, not 2024 (millions of euros). Likewise Revenue, not Revenue (USD bn), when the unit prints as an axis note rather than inside the legend entry. The unit note itself is not dropped: it stays in the output as the chart's own text (see Cover Every Data Point (§11.1.1)).

A label MUST NOT be rewritten:

• no colour words — Blue line - GDP Growth is GDP Growth;
• no descriptive or chart-type suffixes — no (line), no (bars);
• no expanded abbreviations — SEA stays SEA.

A position on a printed, regularly labeled axis that carries no tick label of its own is labeled by its axis value — 2023 on a year axis ticked every third year, 2500 on a bin axis labeled every other bin. That label is a reading against printed calibration, not invented text (see Cover Every Data Point (§11.1.1)).

Each chart or panel has its own chart table with its own printed title in <caption> (see Multiple Charts and Reference Ink (§11.1.3)), so charts that reuse one label set are told apart by their captions, without altering their labels. The caption appears once inside the table, first or last according to reading order (see Titles Banners Captions (§9.7.3)).

• The twin pies in Legend and Overlay Values (§11.2.4) reuse every slice name; each pie's title (Month of September 2025: $346B, Fiscal Year 2025 to Date: $7,010B) is what distinguishes them.
• The solar panels in Multiple Charts and Reference Ink (§11.1.3) need nothing more: China with 619 appears only in the avoided-emissions panel.

A point that no printed label can locate is not rendered in the chart table (see Cover Every Data Point (§11.1.1)); the unnamed companion curve in Legend and Overlay Values (§11.2.4) is the standing example.