Seeds of Renaissance design system · Diagrams

Type for diagrams

Apfel Grotezk only, and no bold. Elegance from restraint, as in FT and Economist charts: the title only a little larger than the labels, a grey subtitle doing the explaining, hierarchy from size and 60% ink rather than weight. Drawn in the chosen style, panels (drawing style).

Subtitles are draft copy.

Text-heavy. Click for 1:1.
Sparse. Click for 1:1.

The smallest text at 1:1 (1600px export)

From polycrisis to metacrisisThree layers of crisis, from what we see to its rootsSurface layerManifest crisesEscalating, interacting global crisessuch as the climate crisis and tech x-riskIntermediate layerMeta-systemic dysfunctionsCollective action problemsExponential tech and the wisdom gapDegradation of sense-making systemsRoot layerFoundational ideologies (cultural paradigms)and deep human tendenciesDeep ideological featuresCore aspects of humanityPolycrisisMetacrisis

The scale

titleApfel Regular 46pxSentence case. Ideally the claim, not the topic.
subtitleApfel Regular 28px, 60% inkWhat the figure shows, one line.
headApfel Mittel 32pxBox and panel headings.
bigApfel Mittel 34pxBracket and group labels.
labelApfel Regular 29pxAnnotations and bullets.
subApfel Regular 26px, 60% inkSecondary lines inside boxes.
tagApfel Mittel 21px, uppercase, trackedAxis names and one-to-three-word tags only.

At 400px, as in a feed

From polycrisis to metacrisisThree layers of crisis, from what we see to its rootsSurface layerManifest crisesEscalating, interacting global crisessuch as the climate crisis and tech x-riskIntermediate layerMeta-systemic dysfunctionsCollective action problemsExponential tech and the wisdom gapDegradation of sense-making systemsRoot layerFoundational ideologies (cultural paradigms)and deep human tendenciesDeep ideological featuresCore aspects of humanityPolycrisisMetacrisis
Polycrisis · light
From polycrisis to metacrisisThree layers of crisis, from what we see to its rootsSurface layerManifest crisesEscalating, interacting global crisessuch as the climate crisis and tech x-riskIntermediate layerMeta-systemic dysfunctionsCollective action problemsExponential tech and the wisdom gapDegradation of sense-making systemsRoot layerFoundational ideologies (cultural paradigms)and deep human tendenciesDeep ideological featuresCore aspects of humanityPolycrisisMetacrisis
Polycrisis · dark
Wisdom gapThe Wisdom GapOur power grows faster than our capacity to use it wellTimeTechnological power“Wisdom”: our capacity to use it well
Wisdom gap · light
Wisdom gapThe Wisdom GapOur power grows faster than our capacity to use it wellTimeTechnological power“Wisdom”: our capacity to use it well
Wisdom gap · dark