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Creating Infographics

Creating Infographics. What are infographics?. They blend text and images to convey information visually —illustrating facts with charts, map or diagrams. Once considered optional, they are now considered mandatory for effective publication design.

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Creating Infographics

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  1. Creating Infographics

  2. What are infographics? • They blend text and images to convey information visually —illustrating facts with charts, map or diagrams. • Once considered optional, they are now considered mandatory for effective publication design. • Carve complicated material into bite-sized chunks. • Offer attractive alternatives to gray text. • Add reader appeal

  3. Main types of infographics • Fast facts • Bio boxes • Lists • Checklists • Q & A’s • Surveys and Polls • Charts and graphs • Tables • Timelines • Maps

  4. Fast facts • Distill the who-what-when-where-why of a story into a concise package. • Introduce basic facts without slowing down the text. • Provide supplemental information

  5. Bio boxes • Allows you to quickly profile any person, place or thing. • Can stick or the basic who-what-where-when-why • Or they can spin off into specialized tangents.

  6. Lists • Can be used to itemize tips, trends, winners, warnings and more.

  7. Checklists • Like lists, but are more interactive • Try to make information as accessible and relevant as possible.

  8. Q & A’s • Help to capture the spirit of an interview, making you feel as if you’re eavesdropping on someone else’s conversation

  9. Surveys and Polls

  10. Charts & Graphs • When math gets heavy, charts and graphs come in handy. • They present numerical data in a simple, visual way. • The simpler, the better.

  11. The Bar Chart • Compares two or more items by sizing them as columns parked side by side. • Uses two basic components: • A scale running either horizontally or vertically showing data totals • Bars extending in the same direction representing the items being measured.

  12. Fever or Line Charts • Measures changing quantities over time. • Three components: • A scale running vertically along one edge, measuring amounts • A scale running horizontally along the bottom, measuring time • A jagged line connecting a series of points, showing rising or falling trends.

  13. Pie charts • Compares the parts that make up a whole. • Consists of • A circle that represents 100% of something • Several wedges that divide the circle into smaller percentages. Each “slice” is an accurate proportion.

  14. Tables • Half text, half chart • Stack words and numbers in rows to let readers make side-by-side comparisons. • Usually consist of: • Headings running horizontally across the top of the chart • Categories running vertically down the left side • Lists grouped in columns reading both across and down.

  15. Timelines • Put topics in perspective by illustrating, step by step, how events unfolded.

  16. Maps • Keep maps simple • Keep north pointing “up.” • Add mileage scales whenever possible • Use type consistently • Don’t use type smaller than 8 point. • Decide where you’ll use all caps, italics, boldface

  17. Guidelines to designing infographics • Include the following elements: • A headline or title • A credit line listing the source(s) of data or information • Consistent type styles and sizes • Text type 8 points or larger • Label every line, number, circle and bar • Strive for simplicity

  18. Is this simple? • Excessive slices that are hard to tell apart • Use of separate key to show percentages, rather than labeling or pointing to each individual pie slice

  19. Lastly, edit carefully • Check all the totals, percentages, year • Check spelling • Check grammar • Check details: Do they match what is in the story?

  20. Sources • Copy Editors Handbook for Newspapers • The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook, by Tim Harrower

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