Using Type to Add Data to Data Visualizations

Ebad Banissi; Richard Brath

Using Type to Add Data to Data Visualizations

Ebad Banissi
, Richard Brath

School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies

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Abstract

Type attributes, such as bold and italic, can be used to represent data in visualizations. A review across domains shows various uses of type attributes and these can itemized and assessed for different ways to encoded data. Numerous examples show how these attributes can be applied to new kinds of visualizations

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 16 Aug 2015
Event	TypeCon 2015 - Duration: 16 Aug 2015 → …

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Conference	TypeCon 2015
Period	16/08/15 → …

Keywords

Quantitative typography
Text visualization
Alphanumeric glyphs
Font attributes

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