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by giraffe_lady
702 days ago
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HTML tables don't necessarily make this easy but but when you have numbers as tabular data, the "subcolumns" should line up when numbers have the same meaning. So if the number 17,000 is directly above 9,000, the 9 and 7 should be in same horizontal space. A lot of fonts include tabular number variants (or just use them by default) which also makes them visually line up when you get this part correct. Not necessary but keeps the look cleaner, a real concern with dense numeric tables. I got everything I know & believe about formatting data from edward tufte who has basically spent his entire career thinking and writing about it. But a really solid usable summary of this specific thing is on matthew butterick's site. https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html |
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