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The Glamour of Graphics
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Welcome, logistics, course materials, and additional resources
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What is information design and why does it matter?
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Course overview
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The shape of dataChart types
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How to choose a chart
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Visual metaphor
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Memorability vs. speed of comprehension
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Identifying your audience
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Data encoding process
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LayoutGrids, borders, lines
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Axes
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Grids, borders, lines, and axes examples and exercises
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Alignment
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White space
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Charts in larger layouts
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Alignment, white space, and layout of multiple plots examples and exercises
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TypographyWhat is typography and why does it matter?
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Typographic hierarchy
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Font styles
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Good fonts and where to find them
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Using custom fonts in R examples and exercises
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ggtext examples and exercises
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Pairing fonts
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Typography beyond charts
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ColorColor palettes
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Color examples and exercises
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Color models
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HCL color palettes in ggplot examples and exercises
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The color wheel
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Color and emotion
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The eyedropper tool and color inspiration
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Special topicsLegends
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Accessibility
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Combining ggplot with a vector editor
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Annotations
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Resizing plots for export
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Finding inspiration
Lesson 21 of 37
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Using custom fonts in R examples and exercises
Your Turn
- Take one of the charts we’ve made and add your own fonts to it
- Adjust the size or style of your text using theme elements
- Save your chart with the custom fonts
Make sure you’ve installed the ragg
package.
Solutions
You find an example chart using custom fonts here.
Learn More
This blog post talks about modern text features in R using the ragg
and systemfonts
packages.
Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!