Graphic Cueing of Text: The Typographic and Diagraphic Dimensions

Abstract

A new taxonomy is proposed for classifying the graphic cues commonly used in visually informative text. Previous approaches have focused on typographic and spatial cueing but have not formalized the concept which I call mark cueing. Mark cues are lines such as dividers, guidelines and network links and visual tags such as bullets and enumerators. Spatial and mark cueing are subsumed under a new concept called diagraphic cueing. Together, diagraphic and typographic cueing make up the broader concept of graphic cueing. The various forms of graphic cues are surveyed, with a brief look at products such as vertical list, tables, network diagrams and text labels.