Geometric shapes in : Shared baseline
Geometric shapes decides what is being compared in under “Shared baseline.” The figure that must stay on the axis is 300. Drawing it larger does not create a unit. Look first for a cut axis and a missing key. The eye compares length and position more accurately than area.
When should I pick Geometric shapes? When the story is: icons, posters, worksheets, brand marks. When should I avoid Geometric shapes? Skip it in cases like: you need to encode a quantity — use a chart, not a pretty triangle. Euclid’s Elements (~300 BCE) still names the school set; modern UI reuses it
closed outlines whose corners and symmetry carry meaning Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in Meta, Google and retail print; otherwise link to a full figure. Yes for lab reports and poster boards if axes, units and a source line are present. Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint; export SVG/PDF.
Do not rely on hue alone. Label directly and check greyscale. Geometric shapes: honour closed outlines whose corners and symmetry carry meaning, and switch when you need to encode a quantity — use a chart, not a pretty triangle. The core mark of Geometric shapes is closed outlines whose corners and symmetry carry meaning.
Read Geometric shapes as , “Shared baseline,” and 300. A bar with no unit is not those three.300
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 300
- Axis figure
- 300
- Chart
- Geometric shapes
- How to read it
- Shared baseline