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Field note

The subway style

Stations, routes, and transfers. A good style when the connections are the point.

The transit poster treats each interest as a station on a colored route. Clusters are lines. A bridge is a transfer. People who live in cities can read this picture before they read the paragraph, which is why we offer it.

It flatters a life that already thinks in connections. It can also over-connect. Not every pair of hobbies deserves a transfer. We only draw a line when the reading has a label. If the poster looks like a bowl of spaghetti, you have many stations and few real bridges. That is information. Trim to the routes you would actually ride this year.

On a phone, the subway chart switches to a sheet layout so the type stays large. The downloadable PNG and PDF always use the print layout, tall, meant for a wall.

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