Slide and document grid in : Shared baseline
Slide and document grid decides what is being compared in under “Shared baseline.” The figure that must stay on the axis is 1960. 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 Slide and document grid? When the story is: PowerPoint or Google Slides, one-pagers, classroom posters. When should I avoid Slide and document grid? Skip it in cases like: stacking free-floating boxes with no shared edges. Swiss grid systems; later presentation templates and CSS Grid
columns, gutters and margins as a shared spatial system 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. Slide and document grid: honour columns, gutters and margins as a shared spatial system, and switch when stacking free-floating boxes with no shared edges. The core mark of Slide and document grid is columns, gutters and margins as a shared spatial system.
Read Slide and document grid as , “Shared baseline,” and 1960. A bar with no unit is not those three.1960
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 1960
- Axis figure
- 1960
- Chart
- Slide and document grid
- How to read it
- Shared baseline