Comparison charts
A comparison sheet is not a table with numbers in it. It is an arrangement that makes a quantity felt — the A series drawn at true relative size so the halving rule is obvious at a glance, fruit lined up so that a difference in sugar is a length rather than a figure.
That is a kind, not a style: a comparison can be plain vector work or fully illustrated. What it cannot be is a list, because a list is precisely the thing it exists to replace.
They work best where a decision gets made — beside a printer, in a kitchen, at a dressing table.
MARS
size, distances and time — computed from rotation, orbit and mass
NAIL SHAPES
eight shapes at one scale · what tells them apart in millimetres
VIDEO CARRIERS
nine formats at true scale — and the frame that kept growing after the carrier stopped
BEER STYLES
colour, bitterness and strength of 15 styles from the BJCP 2021 guidelines
MINIMUM MATURATION
how long each spirit must sit in the barrel before it may bear its name — fifteen legal minimums on one scale
SUGAR IN DRINKS
how many sugar cubes hide in a glass — from water to cola, by the USDA reference
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
SUGAR IN FRUIT
grams of natural sugar per 100 g of fresh fruit — and how much water sits beside it
THE SCOVILLE SCALE
chilli heat from the bell pepper to Pepper X: four peppers drawn to true scale, and the ladder of varieties
LANGUAGE FAMILIES
who is related to whom — on the numerals three and two in twenty-seven languages
AUDIO CARRIERS
seven carriers over a century at one scale, and what each one brought first