Table of Contents
Getting started
- Please visit our list of online and desktop applications that can be used to create infographics
Learning resources
Online courses
- Introduction to Infographics, an online, self-paced course administered through Quercus
- Data Visualization - An Introduction: Theory and Critique, an online, self-paced course administered through Quercus
Workshops
Introduction to Infographics: Health Critique Example
Introduction to Infographics: Social Science Critique Example
Tutorials & Other Guides
Additional Resources to Learn More
Designing your Infographic
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Infographic Planning Worksheet
- Some Useful Infographic Design Articles
- The Ultimate Infographic Design Guide: 13 Tricks for Better Designs (Venngage)
- How to Make an Infographic in Under 1 Hour by Midori Nediger (Venngage)
- How Designers Do It: 15 Easy Steps to Design an Infographic from Scratch (Canva)
- Visual Abstracts
Map & Data Library Data Visualization Resources
- Data Visualization Guide
- Design Principles section (with data viz tips)
- Specialty Visualization Areas section (with map making tips)
- Research about visual variables and visual perception section of the data viz design workflow page
- Data Viz Guide's Books, Blogs & More page
- Piktochart Tutorial
- Online Data Visualization Courses:
The Power of Storytelling with Visuals
- Specific resources supporting the ideas mentioned on why visualization and storytelling are so powerful:
- Implications of dual coding for information design by Sheila Pointis
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte [PRINT BOOK]
- Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature by Michael Austin [PRINT BOOK]
- Data Visualization: Storytelling [LinkedIn Learning Course] (Toronto Public Library, or some other public libraries, account required for access)
Examples, Layout, Fonts, and Colours
- Infographic examples [PRINT BOOKS]:
- Layout:
- Fonts:
- How to Choose Fonts (with sample font pairings)
- Modular Scale (for selecting font sizes)
- Colour palettes:
Psychology and Accessibility
- Colour Psychology:
- Handbook of color psychology [ONLINE BOOK]
- Colour hunting: How colour influences what we buy, make and feel [PRINT BOOK]
- Accessibility
Infographic Creation Tools
- Desktop Tools
- Online Tools