Style Guide - Data Fluency: Empowering Your Organization with Effective Data Communication - page 237

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Style Guide

A Data Presentation Style Guide is a shared document that helps
everyone in an organization create high-quality, consistent data
presentations. The document provides a starting point for anyone
creating a report, dashboard, or analytical interface regardless of
the tool being used. In fact, the style guide helps to smooth out
the inevitable differences across tools. The following table of con-
tents provides a sample of the content that may be covered in a
style guide.

Chart selection —Guidelines for selecting the right chart for the data
and your message.

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Layout —Design principles for laying out charts and other content on
the page, including using gridlines and whitespace.

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Typography —Font sizes and weights for headings, body, labels, and
notes text.

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Color —Categorical, sequential, and divergent color schemes to be
used in charts.

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Number formatting —Formats for dates, decimals, currencies, and
large numbers.

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Basic charts —Bar, line, scatterplot, bubble, and pie.

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