Quick Notes from Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Use colors from nature

To clarify the point of a visual display, sometimes detail should be added, not removed.

Erase non-data ink

A longer graphic (width) is usually better than a taller one

The purpose of the graphic is to:
– Provide the greatest number of ideas
– In the shortest amount of time
– Using the smallest space (least amount of ink)