Thread: Wood working infographics

I like them and think they would be the sort of thing that would be useful in a classroom/training workshop

Pete

Now to do some on burls!!

Hi guys, thanks for the feedback I really appreciate that!

You are more than welcome to print them or share them with people if you think they are useful as teaching tools .

I received some good input from the forums I submitted the pics to so I have gone ahead and made another one.

This is a little less scientific and a bit more basic but I am hoping it helps some of the newer wood workers to understand the large scale differences between hard and softwoods.

I plan to keep making them with the aim/hope of improving the looks and quality of information on them so don't worry this isn't as good as it gets .

Again any input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Gi

Illustrations of the trees would work better - the black boxes are hidden in the pics.
Keep font sizes consistent for the same type of content. Don't enlarge a font just because there is space to fill.
Highly saturated colours don't really work as backgrounds - too hard to read text on them unless you know how to contrast colours well.
Font effects like outlining and shadowing and neon glow....just say no.
If you simply must have a fancy font effect, find a font with that effect provided by the font designer, not a computer effect applied to a non-fancy font. (dafont.com is a good source of free fonts).
If you are thinking of printing them, the minimum resolutionof the image should be 300dpi at expected print size (this goes for any picture on the page, too).
Do illustrations as vector images, as these can be saved as a fairly small PDF file that can be enlarged without any loss of resolution.

Left justify text. Anything else is harder to read.