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The Glamour of Graphics

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  1. Welcome, logistics, course materials, and additional resources
  2. What is information design and why does it matter?
  3. Course overview
  4. The shape of data
    Chart types
  5. How to choose a chart
  6. Visual metaphor
  7. Memorability vs. speed of comprehension
  8. Identifying your audience
  9. Data encoding process
  10. Layout
    Grids, borders, lines
  11. Axes
  12. Grids, borders, lines, and axes examples and exercises
  13. Alignment
  14. White space
  15. Charts in larger layouts
  16. Alignment, white space, and layout of multiple plots examples and exercises
  17. Typography
    What is typography and why does it matter?
  18. Typographic hierarchy
  19. Font styles
  20. Good fonts and where to find them
  21. Using custom fonts in R examples and exercises
  22. ggtext examples and exercises
  23. Pairing fonts
  24. Typography beyond charts
  25. Color
    Color palettes
  26. Color examples and exercises
  27. Color models
  28. HCL color palettes in ggplot examples and exercises
  29. The color wheel
  30. Color and emotion
  31. The eyedropper tool and color inspiration
  32. Special topics
    Legends
  33. Accessibility
  34. Combining ggplot with a vector editor
  35. Annotations
  36. Resizing plots for export
  37. Finding inspiration
The Glamour of Graphics What is typography and why does it matter?
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What is typography and why does it matter?

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Read more about why you should care about typography. And if you want the ultimate guide to all things type, check out Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick. You don’t need to read the entire thing yet, but you can begin reading about various topics that you’re curious about, and use this as a reference throughout the course.

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