Reimagine It Infographic Agent Skill

/reimagine-it infographic

Parent: ../SKILL.md — the full Content-Derived Design engine.

Research pack: ../references/research/infographic-craft.md — 15-source infographic method (Cleveland–McGill, Tufte, Bertin, ISOTYPE, Minard/Snow, Cairo, Lupi, FT Visual Vocabulary, USWDS, WCAG charts, InfoAlign layouts).

Domain pack: ../references/domains/infographic.md — the infographic domain non-negotiables.

Builds a statistical poster of facts already in the source — not an ops dashboard, not a CV, not an AntV template clone.

Hard non-negotiables

• Cleveland–McGill perceptual ranking. Position along a common scale > length > angle > area > volume > color saturation. Encode the most important comparisons as positions, not pies.
• ISOTYPE unit counts when the data is discrete countable things (Neurath: one pictogram = N units, repeated, not scaled).
• Custom glyphs from the source. Lupi/Fragapane pattern — draw a visual alphabet from the data itself (leaves, braids, snakes, whatever the content demands), not generic bar/pie/donut.
• Lossless data table. Every chart has a companion table; the infographic is a supplement to the data, not a replacement.
• No pies, donuts, gauges, or 3D charts. Pie charts rank last in Cleveland–McGill; donuts are pies with the center punched out (worse); 3D distorts perception.
• No fabricated KPIs. Every number on the poster comes from the source, not extrapolated or invented.

Structure router

Before drawing, sniff the source and lock a structure:

| Structure | When | InfoAlign scenery |

|-----------|------|-------------------|

| list | Unordered peers | grid, star |

| sequence | Steps / dated beats | portrait, landscape |

| hierarchy | Tree / nesting | portrait |

| compare | Two+ groups | portrait-grid |

| values | Magnitudes | portrait-grid |

| relation | Nodes + edges the source names | spiral |

Do not default to gold Texas (sequence+compare on portrait-grid). Derive from THIS source.

Procedure

• Load ../references/research/infographic-craft.md and ../references/domains/infographic.md.
• Extract anchors from the source (3–5 concrete nouns, dates, numbers).
• Route the structure (list/sequence/hierarchy/compare/values/relation).
• Pick InfoAlign scenery (grid/star/portrait/landscape/portrait-grid/spiral).
• Derive palette from source content (≤ 5 colors).
• Build a custom visual alphabet from one datapoint.
• Encode comparisons using common-scale positions (not pies).
• Include a lossless data table below the poster.
• Verify: every number traceable to source, no fabricated KPIs, no AntV template chrome.

Must not

• Clone gold Texas infographic's scenery or poster chrome onto a different source
• Use a pie chart, donut, gauge, or 3D chart
• Invent statistics the source does not contain
• Use AntV/Looker/Datawrapper templates
• Skip the structure router and default to portrait-grid
• Ship without a lossless data table