Negative feature line: selling the absence of a thing
A negative feature line prints an absence as an inclusion: No watermark, listed among the things a plan provides. It establishes a boundary and says nothing about the thing being absent. As of 2026-09-22.
| The term | Negative feature line |
|---|---|
| What it names | A feature printed as the absence of something |
| What it is not | A description of the mark the plan removes |
| Where the register uses it | Several paid-tier values, recorded in the vendor's wording |
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 grammatical inversion with a real consequence
Most grids describe the marked side: the free plan carries a watermark, removal begins at a tier. A negative line describes the clean side instead, which reads as generous and conveys strictly less. Nothing on such a page describes output below the boundary, because such output may not exist.
One entry here has no free plan at all and prints No watermark as a feature of its cheapest tier. The line is then a boundary with only one side: there is nothing below it, and the register records the firmest statement in that column and the one describing the fewest files.
2What a reader can and cannot infer
The inference that holds: on this plan, output has no mark. The inference that does not: that output without this plan does, or that the mark would be a particular thing. A page can print No watermark for a plan whose cheaper siblings were never marked, and nothing on the page would distinguish that case.
So the register records the wording rather than translating it into a claim about the marked side. Where a vendor also describes the free plan, both statements are recorded, and where it does not, the free cell carries the reason it is empty.
3Why the wording is kept
Rewriting No watermark as free output is marked would produce a tidier table and a false one. It would also hide a change: a vendor that later adds a free plan, or starts describing its mark, would produce no visible movement in a row that had already asserted the stronger claim.
That discipline runs through every column here. Cells hold what a page prints, with the reading method beside them, and the prose does the work of saying what the wording supports.
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: benefit list, omission reading, crossing point.