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Callouts & badges in : 3-D helps

When should I avoid Callouts & badges? Skip it in cases like: the badge repeats the headline — pick one shout. Clip Callouts & badges from a paper and keep the axis sentence, not the colour. Year , line “3-D helps,” figure 3. Colour alone does not carry size. Variant 1 of Callouts & badges (Speech balloon). Same encoding, different layout.

When should I avoid Callouts & badges? Skip it in cases like: the badge repeats the headline — pick one shout. Yellow Kid balloons (1890s); retail burst stickers from mid-century packaging a contained label that interrupts the reading order on purpose 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. Callouts & badges: honour a contained label that interrupts the reading order on purpose, and switch when the badge repeats the headline — pick one shout.

The core mark of Callouts & badges is a contained label that interrupts the reading order on purpose. promos, numbered how-tos, comic explanation, UI chips 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 “3-D helps” is the axis, the figure is 3 and the year is .3

Figures to keep

Year of the chart
3
Axis figure
3
Chart
Callouts & badges
How to read it
3-D helps

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