Give it numbers and it draws the chart the numbers are asking for — labelled, in your colours, at the size the sheet needs. Below is the whole catalogue, and the rule each one follows.
The default, and it deserves to be. Length is the quantity people compare most accurately.
A shape you can read in half a second: up, down, or flat with a wobble.
One glance at a split. The hole is for the total, which is the only reason to prefer it to a pie.
One number against a target. Usually the figure should be big and the bar small.
Two or three options judged on the same rows. Reading across a row beats reading between two charts.
Events in order, on a drawn spine. The one chart where the labels matter more than the geometry.
These are checked when a piece is drawn, but they are worth carrying in your head — you will spot them in other people’s charts for the rest of your life.
It proposes one from the shape of your data, and you can override it in a sentence — “make that a line”, “show it as a donut instead”. The proposal follows the rules on this page.
Yes. Ask for a single chart with a title and it will compose a sheet that is one chart — useful for dropping into a deck or a doc.
PNG for anywhere a picture goes, SVG when it must stay sharp or be edited in a vector tool afterwards, and PDF for print. Text in the piece stays real text, so it can be selected and read by a screen reader.
Yes. Save a brand kit and every fill and tint is mixed from your accent, so a set of charts made weeks apart still match.
There is a practical limit rather than a technical one: above about eight bars or two lines a chart stops being readable, so large sets are summarised to the entries that carry the point.
Not today. The set is bars, lines, donuts, progress meters, comparisons and timelines — the six that cover the overwhelming majority of what an infographic needs.
And if it picks wrong, one sentence changes it.
Make a chart free