Goal: knowledge and outline
Reader: Learners and authors organising knowledge, topics and concepts. Meta cluster: D — knowledge & expression Scenarios: 7 · Examples: 9
Scenarios
| Scenario | Tier | Engines | Example files |
|---|---|---|---|
| keyword cloud | T0 | infographic, vega | topic-emphasis-wordcloud.md<br>survey-themes-rotated-cloud.md<br>topic-landscape-wordcloud.md |
| content mix | T2 | vega | catalog-sunburst-share.md |
| topic flow | T2 | echarts | themeriver-topic-attention.md |
| concept relations | T2 | infographic | capability-relationship-map.md |
| knowledge map | T2 | infographic | enterprise-knowledge-map.md |
| knowledge tree | T2 | infographic | department-capability-tree.md |
| topic mindmap | T2 | plantuml | topic-mindmap.md |
Reading order
One mind map as the spine, hierarchies for structure, relations for concepts that cross branches.
Engines in this goal
echarts— report-grade charts and dashboardsinfographic— template-driven boards, sequences and comparisonsplantuml— diagrams with icon families and UML/ArchiMate/BPMN semanticsvega/vega-lite— statistical views where the data needs transforms
Details, limits and anti-patterns: ../engines/echarts.md · ../engines/infographic.md · ../engines/plantuml.md · ../engines/vega.md.
Palette
Every figure takes its colours from a theme. Pick one in
../styles/palette.md — the token contract, the theme index and the
per-engine blocks all start there.
Most figures in this set want Default. Depart from it for the medium, not the topic: Print when it may be photocopied, Contrast for low vision or large-print handouts, Vivid when it will be projected, Accessible when colour must not be the only cue, Editorial for long-form reading, Slate for technical reference, Pastel when the figure sits inside gentle prose, Nord for a cool Nordic register. Every theme is designed for a light ground — the set has no dark page.
Don't
- A mind map used as a document outline → it is an exploration tool
- Keyword clouds presented as analysis