Arrows & connectors in : Craft
e or cause. sequence, cause, download/click targets, map flow The eye compares length and position more accura axes, units and a source line are present. Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint; export SVG/PDF. Do not rely When should I avoid Arrows & connectors? Skip it in cases like: every object has an arrow — then none of them Clip Arrows & connectors from a paper and keep the axis sentence, not the colour. Year , line “Craft,” figure 20. Colour alone does not carry size. Truncated axes that shout a small delta
When should I avoid Arrows & connectors? Skip it in cases like: every object has an arrow — then none of them mean anything. Heraldic piles and map north arrows; modern CTA chevrons from 20th-c. print ads a shaft plus a head that assigns sequence or cause 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. Arrows & connectors: honour a shaft plus a head that assigns sequence or cause, and switch when every object has an arrow — then none of them mean anything.
The core mark of Arrows & connectors is a shaft plus a head that assigns sequence or cause. sequence, cause, download/click targets, map flow 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.
Keep axis, unit, and year. If “Craft” is the axis, the figure is 20 and the year is .20
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 20
- Axis figure
- 20
- Chart
- Arrows & connectors
- How to read it
- Craft