As part of my work at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, I created a web app to make Equitable Growth (EG) styled charts. At EG we produce reports and policy papers on economic topics that frequently feature several charts each. Because the organization employs only one person proficient in Illustrator, creating these charts was an organizational bottleneck.
To overcome this problem, I’ve created a free web app for charting data. This post is a little introduction to the app, which I call Playfair. There’s also a lot of information on the github page. I’ve made a simple tutorial that walks you through a couple Playfair graphs. And you can try Playfair online here (Chrome only right now).