Information design and the data-ink ratio - online news formatting for maximum legibility, understanding and scanability
What are the best practices to format and lay out?
News information and content so that it can provide a great user-experience (to be as legible, scanable and usable as possible?).
Problem: excessive amounts of information often presented in confusing ways - hard-to-read text, slides with too much content, hard-to-understand tables and reports, news and web pages.
How to solve it: utilize a set of guiding principles and rules to govern all information publishing.
Line length
Font size
Typeface / font choice
Spacing - leading
Chunking
Bolding
Alignment
Distribution
Data-ink ratio
Examples of bad content formatting and layout in mainstream online media
Examples of good content formatting online
Recommended resources for further learning
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