Timeline in : Shared baseline
Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Chart of Biography inspired later atlases Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in M Clip Timeline from a paper and keep the axis sentence, not the colour. Year , line “Shared baseline,” figure 1765. Colour alone does not carry size. Do not stack stories. One Timeline, one claim.
Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Chart of Biography inspired later atlases 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. Timeline: honour position along an ordered time axis, and switch when you need quantities changing, not just dates. The core mark of Timeline is position along an ordered time axis. ordered events, eras, project milestones
The eye compares length and position more accurately than area. PowerPoint, Excel or Google Sheets and Meta, Google and retail print share the same geometry. Decoration rarely persuades; it slows reading. Perspective distortion wrecks comparison. Keep it flat. Rainbow defaults fail color-blind viewers and grey print. Change Excel or Google Sheets defaults.
Keep axis, unit, and year. If “Shared baseline” is the axis, the figure is 1765 and the year is .1765
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 1765
- Axis figure
- 1765
- Chart
- Timeline
- How to read it
- Shared baseline