exaggerated proportion

Draw the parts at the size of the attention they take rather than the size they are. A habit costing 40 a month becomes the height of the page and a bill of 2,100 a month becomes a postage stamp. The distortion is the claim, so it has to be obvious and it has to be labeled. A reader who mistakes it for a chart has been misled, and that is your doing, not theirs.

Draw the parts at the size of the attention they take rather than the size they are. A habit costing 40 a month becomes the height of the page and a bill of 2,100 a month becomes a postage stamp. The distortion is the claim, so it has to be obvious and it has to be labeled. A reader who mistakes it for a chart has been misled, and that is your doing, not theirs.

Example

Best when the argument is about misallocated attention and the true numbers sit printed beside the drawing.