Figures

A figure with a caption, and tables.

A graphic sits in the column of the text, as wide as the text, so that the words and the picture are read together. Its caption is small and in italic.

The rainfall of a made-up town, month by month. The line carries the data and nothing else: no grid, no frame, two labels.

The figure above has no gridlines and no box. Two labels mark the months that matter, and the reader can find the rest on the line.

Tables

A table has three rules: a heavy one above, a light one under the header, and a heavy one below. There are no lines between the rows, and the numbers line up on the right.

Book	Year	Pages
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	1983	197
Envisioning Information	1990	126
Visual Explanations	1997	156
Beautiful Evidence	2006	213

A wide table scrolls in its own box, so the page does not.

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Rain, mm	78	84	93	112	128	141	136	120	98	81	67	50
Days of rain	11	12	13	15	16	17	17	15	13	11	10	8