This should be a competitive sport, like gymnastics. He's attempting the bevel! With extra-wide lines! Very ambitious, but unfortunately he often fails to stick the corner alignments, the bevel distances are poorly controlled, and the data is unsuitably spiky for that choice of line joint. 7/10.
I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
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#12What I'm curious now is how one could use software (even PowerPoint) to make graphs that replicate that handmade aesthetic.
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#13Fantastic read!
In the mid-2010s, I was interning at the German federal statistical office. Some of the team assistants were there since the 1980s/90s and had still learnt to use those tools as part of their vocational training. They also showed me the tools and the instructions for drawing exactly aligned tables by hand and the resulting bound sets of tables with hundreds of pages. Completely mind-boggling how much time they must have spent on a single project, now all automated away.
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#14This should be a competitive sport, like gymnastics. He's attempting the bevel! With extra-wide lines! Very ambitious, but unfortunately he often fails to stick the corner alignments, the bevel distances are poorly controlled, and the data is unsuitably spiky for that choice of line joint. 7/10.
I loved hearing this comment in my mind :)
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#15This is my favourite kind of post here
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#16You should add in Calvin Schmid's Handbook of Graphic Presentation into your list Doug -- https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfGraphicPresentation/pa...
Unfortunately I do not see specific discussion of how to make the lines a consistent thickness. It does have notes on how to sharpen your pencil and how to use a carpenters spline to draw smooth curves though.
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#17This is my favourite kind of post here
Same. Any kind of hyper fixation is infinitely more interesting than AI bullshit.
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#18Heh. Which if y'all borrowed the Tufte book?
It's ok, I can wait...
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#20Does he explain what the red dots in the titles of his work are meant to be? Possibly I didn’t read carefully enough