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That signature red rectangle above the title

data-visualisation
How did everyone else tackle the challenge of recreating the iconic chart signature from the Econonist?
Author
Affiliation

Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

Published

April 15, 2022

It’s been fun watching everyone’s solutions for creating the signature red rectangle above the title for the #30DayChartChallenge TheEconomist theme day.

Here’s mine: x.com/cararthompson/status/1514965008727298048

Code snippet in R for customising a plot title using HTML and markdown styling. The title 'The Invisible Dinosaur' is bold, aligned left, with specific size and line height. Text colour is specified in hex.

labs(title = "<span style='color:#e2110a;font-size:90px'>_</span><br>The Invisible Dinosaur") +
theme(plot.title = element_markdown(
  hjust = 0, size = 16,
  face = "bold", 
  lineheight = 2,
  padding = unit(c(0, 0, 0.5, 0), "line")
)

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For attribution, please cite this work as:
Thompson, Cara. 2022. “That Signature Red Rectangle Above the Title.” April 15, 2022. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2022-04-15-its-been-fun-watching-everyones/.