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Feature icon: meaning that text extraction destroys

A feature icon is the tick or crossed glyph beside a line on a grid. Where the same line is printed under every plan, the glyph carries the whole distinction and the words settle nothing. As of 2026-09-22.

The same grid, read two waysRead by the words printed in each column, a grid that repeats every feature line says all plans qualify. Read by the glyph beside each line, it says two of them do. Only the second reading matches what the page means.How is this grid readBy the printed wordsEvery plan qualifiesThe feature line is identical under allfour columns, so the text excludesnothing.By the glyph beside themTwo plans qualifyA crossed form on the cheaper plans and atick on the dearer ones.The distinction carries no text at all
Fig. 1 A register built by copying visible strings records this entry backwards, and so does anything summarising the page's text.
How this register uses the term, and what it excludes. Written 2026-09-22.
The termFeature icon
What it namesA tick or crossed glyph beside a feature line on a grid
What it is notDecoration alongside text that already says the same thing
Where the register uses itOne entry, whose free-tier value is read from a glyph

Inclusion rule. Words this site uses in a narrow sense, where the ordinary sense would lead a reader to misread a cell. No vendor statement appears on this page. Order. Fixed order: what the word names, what it excludes, then where it is used here.

1A page that reads one way to a human and another to a parser

Strip the markup from a grid of this shape and every plan claims the feature. The visual distinction is entirely in a small graphic that carries no text, so a reader working from the extracted content of the page comes away with the opposite of what the page means.

This is not a hypothetical failure. It is how a register built by copying visible strings would record one entry here backwards, and how any summariser working from page text would answer a question about that vendor's free plan incorrectly.

2Why the design exists

Repeating every line under every plan makes the columns look equally substantial and lets a visitor compare positions rather than lengths. The glyph then does the work of exclusion without printing the word no fourteen times, which would make the cheapest column look punitive.

Again, a sales document doing its job. The cost is that the document has become less machine-readable exactly as more reading is done by machines, which is a structural problem for any vendor that wants its plan terms quoted accurately.

3What the register does about it

It records the value the page actually conveys and names the method: read from the icon, because the feature text is identical under all four plans. A reader who doubts the cell can open the page and look at the glyph, which is the only check available.

It also treats such a value as fragile. An icon set can change, a layout can move to a matrix, and either would require the reading to be redone rather than re-confirmed. That is what the evidence class beside the value is for.

Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the paid tier column, reading a plan table. Nearby terms: negative feature line, benefit list, omission reading.