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It’s an unfathomable milestone. More than 500,000 Americans have now died due to COVID-19, 13 months after the first confirmed case in the U.S.
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How does one convey the gravity of the loss, which is so enormous it can almost seem abstract? News outlets have used bar charts, line charts, and heat maps to convey each new and tragic milestone over the past year. Now, the most effective visualizations use design to both capture the data at its massive scale and bring it back to Earth with visuals that remind us that each data point is a person and a life lost.
I-M-P-E-A-C-H-E-D.
The banner headline on the Jan. 14 front page summed up President Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment in just nine letters.
Or was it eight?
Credit.The New York Times
Some readers may have spied an unusual letterform in the historic headline: an “E” and “A” joined at the baseline and combined into a single character, known as a ligature.
Ligatures are used to improve the appearance and letterspacing of characters that would otherwise awkwardly pair. But the advantages of joined letters are not purely cosmetic. More evenly spaced letters can improve the readability of text, especially in a single word printed large.