Visual Vocabulary
Small examples of data driven graphics -- to be used as starting points for static graphics to be further refined through Illustrator. viewable here
Getting started
For ease of use we suggest you use srvlr
to help you see your changes reflected immediately in your browser.
If you have srvlr installed using it is as simple as opening terminal, navigating to the location of you project and typing srvlr
Setting up a mac for editing the examples
- install nodejs from here https://nodejs.org
- open up terminal app
- install srvlr
npm install -g srvlr
(if you see errors you may need to trysudo npm install -g srvlr
which will then prompt you for your password) - make sure Git is installed, type
git
into the command line. if it's not installed your mac should take over and install it for you
Getting a local copy of the examples
i.e. copying them to your computer. either : Download them from here
or in the terminal window type git clone https://github.com/ft-interactive/graphics-examples.git TARGET-LOCATION
replacing TARGET-LOCATION
with the name of the folder you wish to put the examples in.
Getting you graphic off the page and into illustrator
Use the SVG crowbar bookmark [which is available here]](http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/)
Licence
This software is published by the Financial Times under the MIT licence.
Please note the MIT licence includes only the software, and does not cover any FT content made available using the software, which is copyright © The Financial Times Limited, all rights reserved. For more information about re-publishing FT content, please contact our syndication department.