Forecite's interface looks like an engineering drawing on purpose. Crop marks, dashed guides, monospace index labels — the visual language of a discipline where precision is the whole point.
Honesty as a style
A drafting sheet shows its construction: the guides stay visible, the tolerances are written down. That's the right metaphor for a product whose core promise is measurement — we publish our latency budget the way a drawing publishes its dimensions.
Calm under load
A live feed is inherently noisy, so everything around it has to be still. The grid holds, the animation is reserved for new information, and color is spent almost entirely on one thing: the verdict.