Data Visualization Style Guides
Quickly learn how a custom style guide will make your work more consistent and efficient for your organization. This includes information on color palettes, font, graph styles, and more.
Quickly learn how a custom style guide will make your work more consistent and efficient for your organization. This includes information on color palettes, font, graph styles, and more.
In this step-by-step guide, Data Visualization Designer, Ann K. Emery, walks you through the data visualization design process so you know what to do first, second, and third as you transform your spreadsheets into stories.
Often people with power and privilege get to make the decisions about what data is important to highlight. This article summarizes the racist history of data visualization for the purpose of ending data practices that explicitly and implicitly cause harm.
Bring your data to life by using the correct chart for the story you are telling. This resource has over thirty different charts and quickly summarizes the best time to use each one.
If you have the RGB codes for your organization’s color palette, you can easily save them in excel. This will allow you to very quickly customize all of your future graphs with consistent colors.
Use five simple steps to make all of the valuable data in your text-heavy report more readable and user-friendly. This resource is ideal for organization leaders who wear many hats and don’t have a full time graphic designer in house.
Many small organizations do not have a style guide for brand cohesion. However, you can often still use your organization’s logo to create professional materials that feel cohesive. In this post, quickly learn how to find and use the exact colors that appear in your organization’s logo, rather than eyeballing it.
Many medium-sized organizations have a style guide for the purpose of brand cohesion. In this short post, learn how to use your organization’s pre-existing style guide to create graphs that are consistent with your organization’s color palette.
Learn how to summarize hundreds of survey responses into a report with a body of less than ten pages by creating appendices for the readers that want to learn more.
Annual reports are often long and text-heavy. Learn how to turn a long report into an accessible graphic summary that can even be used as a media campaign.