What is the visual grammar of this blog?
A small set of conventions for text, colour, arrows, shapes and line styles, each with one fixed meaning.
The visual design of explanations is very important to this blog. The process of discovering this visual translation of concepts is a design question, and the design is still evolving.
The ‘Comic Relief’ font is chosen to promote a sense of ‘work in progress’ akin to Excalidraw.
In this sense, this font choice also intended to draw the reader into the discussion more as an active participant in the narrative, instead of a bystander to a technical exposition.
References and further reading
Excalidraw. n.d. “Excalidraw Whiteboard.” Excalidraw. https://excalidraw.com/.
Google Fonts. n.d. “Comic Relief.” Google Fonts. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comic+Relief.
Larkin, Jill H., and Herbert A. Simon. 1987. “Why a Diagram Is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words.” Cognitive Science 11 (1): 65–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6708.1987.tb00863.x.
Tufte, Edward R. 2001. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Graphics Press.
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