An infographic is a visual representation of information.
The three parts of all infographics are the visuals, the content, and the knowledge. The visuals consists of colors and graphics.
Statistics and facts usually serve as the content for infographics, and can be obtained from any number of sources, including census data and news reports.
One of the most important aspects of infographics is that they contain some sort of insight into the data that they are presenting – this is the knowledge.
Elements that were to be included in the infographic:
- title
- background
- colours
- artwork
- graph
- text
- footnote
- credit