Reference charts
A reference sheet promises completeness within its subject. Every letter, every status code, every prefix, every phase — not a selection of the handy ones. That promise is what makes it worth wall space: you can stop wondering whether the answer is on there.
It is the largest kind in the catalogue and it runs across most of the subjects — alphabets and codes, the geography of instruments, the tea and coffee sheets, units and paper formats, the planets and the Moon.
Because they are dense, they reward the larger print. A3 is usually the right call for anything read from more than a metre away.
SUBNET MASKS
from /0 to /32: the mask, how many addresses a block holds, and how many of them go to hosts
UML DIAGRAMS
the fourteen kinds, and the notation a class diagram is made of
THE UNICODE SPACE
1 114 112 code points in 17 planes: 159 866 characters, 137 468 private, 814 730 free
PERCENT-ENCODING IN URIs
128 ASCII positions: 66 unreserved, 18 delimiters, 43 that must always be encoded — and the "%" itself
THE UTF-8 ENCODING
how a Unicode code point falls into one, two, three or four bytes — and which bytes never appear
UUID
thirty-six characters: where the version sits, where the variant sits, and what each of the eight versions is made of
VIDEO FORMATS
who published each standard, when, the names it goes by, and what has to be squeezed
VIM COMMANDS
modes, motions and editing per the Vim 9.1 help — and the grammar that composes them into commands
NINE DRINKS
the same coffee, different proportions
ARABICA AND ROBUSTA
two species, six varieties, one difference
POST-FERMENTED TEAS
six teas changed by microbes rather than oxygen
ESPRESSO
the nine requirements of a certified Italian espresso, with their tolerances
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
SPIRIT HOMELANDS
where the law lets Scotch, bourbon, cognac and tequila be made — seven spirits, three scales of place: a country, a part of one, a drawn zone
SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS
what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps
YELLOW TEA
yellowing under a cover · the step no other tea has
THE ISO 3591 GLASS
the only wine glass with dimensions instead of adjectives
THE 9 MAJOR FOOD ALLERGENS
the foods US law singles out by name, and the two ways a label is allowed to say so
HERBS AND SPICES
what pairs with what, how much to use and what swaps for what — per extension publications MF3539 (Kansas State) and FN198 (NDSU)
CULINARY KNIFE CUTS
julienne, brunoise, bâtonnet and the family of dice — the Culinary Institute of America dimensions, drawn to true scale
SAFE MEAT TEMPERATURES
USDA minimums inside the cut: three numbers for all meat, the rest time, and an oven plan
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
ENGLISH ALPHABET
26 letters · 5 vowels · 21 consonants
THE BRAILLE ALPHABET
63 characters of the cell in seven lines — 26 letters, the digits, the punctuation and 8 prefixes
ENGLISH PUNCTUATION
twelve marks and the three strokes: a name, a job and one working example for each
GREEK ALPHABET
24 letters · names and where science uses them
IRREGULAR VERBS
the 100 you meet most: base · past · past participle — grouped by the four patterns, not shuffled alphabetically
LETTER TEAMS
40 letter combinations and the sounds they spell, in IPA, with one example word each
SIGHT WORDS
all 220 Dolch service words in five grade groups, Pre-K through third — with the top of the Fry frequency list up front
BENFORD’S LAW
the first digit of a number: why a one turns up more than six times as often as a nine, and in which sets that is true
THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX
how many people it takes for two of them to share a birthday — and the same count for codes and fingerprints
THE COLLATZ CONJECTURE
halve the even, triple the odd and add one: the road of 27, the record holders and a problem nobody has solved
NUMBERS 1 TO 100
the hundred chart · primes picked out in colour
LEAP YEARS
one rule, a cycle of four hundred years and the ninety-seven extra days in it
MULTIPLICATION TABLE
1 to 12 · colour intensity = size of the product
PASCAL’S TRIANGLE
the first thirteen rows, the sum of each row and the pattern of the odd numbers
REPEATING DECIMALS
which fractions stop, which run for ever, and how to know the length of the repeat without dividing
ROMAN NUMERALS
seven symbols · ones, tens, hundreds · years
AUDIO CONNECTORS
analog, digital, and speaker wiring · pinouts and balanced signals
BIT DEPTH
how many steps the level is cut into, what a bit adds, and why floating point is not the next row
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
12 keys · key signatures · relative minors
CURWEN HAND SIGNS
one hand for each degree of the scale, with the mental effect John Curwen gave it
DECIBEL SCALES
what stands at zero on each of them, and why −10 and +4 are not fourteen apart