Emphasis techniques

A key to creating effective and accessible reporting documents is using effective techniques to emphasise important information.

These techniques can involve the use of colour, text size and font, layout, alignment, and graphics and images.

Resources

Evaluation report layout checklist

This checklist from Stephanie Evergreen distills the best practices in graphic design and has been particularly created for use on evaluation reports.
What Business Cards Can Teach Us About Evaluation Reports

This blog post by Stephanie Evergreen from Evergreen Data uses the designs of a number of business cards that she had collected over the years to highlight a number of important principles of design and highlight how these can and should be used in
Week 13: Producing engaging and accessible evaluation reports

This BetterEvaluation blog post by Patricia Rogers lays out a range of techniques to improve the readability and emphasis in reports. It discusses the whole process from first thinking about how best to present data, through specific techniques such as headings and visualisations, through to emphasising findings by disseminating results in interesting ways.