Today I want to share with you a very useful infographic for the goal of my blog, which is explaining infographics from a very simple basis! Probably most of your have struggles in choosing which type of font you should use in your infographics. So, this infographic might clarify you a little bit more...
This graphic has also been taken from the site I already recommended you which was: infographically.com and it is a Type Guide.
I think the old-school style of this graphic is very efficient because it reaches the goal of giving the reader a guide of the different fonts we can use in our works and it's also aesthetically pleasant because the reader can feel that there is an equilibrium between the different parts of the graphic.
It think this graphic present a duality. It's figurative because it shows exactly which are the kind of fonts that we are talking about, but at the same time is abstract because it uses some a pie chart.
As for the density, I think it's a little bit dense because there are many kinds of fonts which are explained and but as it's well organized as I said I don't believe that anyone could feel overwhelmed in front of this infographic.
The graphic is rather functional because it uses all its elements with an informative purpose, there are few things (only the title and the speaking boxes of the What's it saying?) which only aim to embellish the graphic.
As it's talking all the time about fonts and its characteristics and meanings I think it's unidimensional.
I think this graphic is original inits topic because it's making methaliterature, using the words to talk about the how the words are composed itselfs (in this case of fonts). However, in its inside graphics it's not that original because everyone is used to speaking boxes, pie charts or rectangles.
It explains different characteristics and functions of different types of fonts and so the graphic it's novel because it's always adding new information.
I hope you make a look through the graphic because it's very interesting and could help you a lot in understanding and choosing better your fonts!
Sara.
I like this old school style as well. But the contrast could be a little bit higher to improve readability. The single elements of the graphic are clearly divided. One funny aspect is, the graphic plays with redundancy in this case: It explains the different types by writing and showing them.
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