two-panel reject and prefer

Two stacked slots. The upper one holds what is being waved away, the lower one holds what is being chosen. Position does all the work: down is better, and the posture drawn in the upper panel supplies a tone toward the rejected option that you never wrote. It compresses a whole comparison into one glance, and it leaves no room for the criteria that made the choice, so the reader sees the verdict and never the reasoning.

Two stacked slots. The upper one holds what is being waved away, the lower one holds what is being chosen. Position does all the work: down is better, and the posture drawn in the upper panel supplies a tone toward the rejected option that you never wrote. It compresses a whole comparison into one glance, and it leaves no room for the criteria that made the choice, so the reader sees the verdict and never the reasoning.

Example

Best when you are ranking exactly two options and you are willing to own both the ranking and the tone that comes with it.