Comments on: Stephen Few’s Derivation of Tufte: The Data-Pixel Ratio http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/06/19/stephen-fews-derivation-of-tufte-the-data-pixel-ratio/ Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andreas Lipphardt http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/06/19/stephen-fews-derivation-of-tufte-the-data-pixel-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Andreas Lipphardt Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:11:23 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=112#comment-463 Tim, I am also a big fan of Tufte's and Few’s minimalistic design approach. I agree with you that adding some style elements like background colors, colored column headers, and rounded corners not necessarily breaks the rules. http://blog.xlcubed.com/creating-rounded-corners-in-excel-tables/ If the rounded corners or light background colors serve a purpose (to structure the table) we can use them as design elements More about Excel table design on http://blog.xlcubed.com/ Andreas Tim,

I am also a big fan of Tufte’s and Few’s minimalistic design approach. I agree with you that adding some style elements like background colors, colored column headers, and rounded corners not necessarily breaks the rules.
http://blog.xlcubed.com/creating-rounded-corners-in-excel-tables/
If the rounded corners or light background colors serve a purpose (to structure the table) we can use them as design elements
More about Excel table design on
http://blog.xlcubed.com/

Andreas

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