@Draco_2k
Uh no, grotesque and grimdark are two pretty different things. Grimdark being dark in mood or nature, and grotesque being stuff like extreme gore of abominations. The two are pretty different from one another. Just search “grotesque,-grimdark” or “grimdark,-grotesque” you will get two pretty different sets of results.
Well, he’s absolutely right about data representation. It should always be as clean and as plain as possible for the benefit of readability and thus their actual purpose as charts: an intuitive visual summary of otherwise unintuitive bunch of numbers.
Which is the rule I violate here, though hopefully not the extent where it starts to become a problem.
@Princess Luna
>You should never make things less readaible to divert attention away from things
You should though. Otherwise every single element will scream “Pick me! Pick me!” and you won’t be able to concentrate on any one thing, maybe not even enough to read it. In fact I’ve seen that exact problem when I was working on this picture; it’s very obvious and very annoying.
>making things that you want emphasized more prominent, not their counterparts less
…Which means that some things have to stand out less than others. Unless you know how to make things more than 100% “readable”, of course. If you don’t, then making something stand out more will always mean making something else stand out less.
I’m pretty sure Grimdark and Grotesque are very similar, both being about darkness and horror themes. My understanding is that the only difference is the amount of blood and guts on display.
@Draco_2k
You should never make things less readaible to divert attention away from things. Good visual design means starting with readable text as the baseline, and making things that you want emphasized more prominent, not their counterparts less.
Readers automatically go from left to right and top to bottom, too. Making text less readable for this purpose is also bad.
Grotesque and grimdark are nowhere near the same thing. Even if you can justify lumping them together, you should make it clear you are lumping them together.
@Princess Luna
Meh. Readability will always be compromised by visual flair, but at least it’s less depressing to look at. There’s no leaking over the text, actually, other than the final percentages (which is not ideal, but it serves to drain visual interest from the area and direct it towards the main charts).
Second-to-last I take offense to: making all of the text or visuals stand out as one would render a data-heavy image impossible to read. You must always have primary and secondary zones of interest and a clear spatial direction (usually left-to-right and top-to-bottom) to guide the reader through them.
“Grotesque” is counted along with “Grimdark”, but I did miss “Semi-grimdark”. A quick search says it accounts for about 1% of the remainder displayed on the charts.
This looks like a terrible first draft. The charts should just use area fills instead of overlays that end up leaking out over the text, the text needs more contrast, and the charts are confusing to read.
You also missed the semi-grimdark and grotesque ratings completely.
@Taupe_Hat
So long as people tag “Drama” and “OP is a duck” properly, I’m happy. Actually, I had to correct a few while doing “research” for this. There were surprisingly little of those.