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.
WHAT A TORNADO BREAKS
twenty-eight damage indicators — and the wind at which each one gives way
BALLS BY THE RULES
eleven sports at true relative size — circumference, mass, pressure, and who sets them
THE LARGEST COUNTRIES
the ten largest by surface area — as squares at true scale, each inside the next
PAPER SIZES
the A series · from A0 to A6
CAMERA SENSORS
seven sizes at one scale, with the crop factor computed from the diagonal
THE TALLEST BUILDINGS
the ten tallest at true scale — and where the floors in them end
MOTORCYCLE CLASSES
rake, trail, wheelbase and seat height — six classes drawn at one scale
PETROL AND DIESEL
nine lines of comparison, and in three of them the requirement is the same for both