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High contrast graphic elements such as infographics, are a highly suggested universal design feature. High contrast icons push functionality, readability, and almost always looks more robust on a page. There are varying kinds of infographics such as pie charts, radial charts, lists, statistics, timelines, comparisons, maps, flows and process infographics.

You can test your contrast ratio here: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Summary Points:

• Check the contrast for all infographics

• If a brand has a particular set of colorways, adjust the darkness of the colors for these brand colors

• Low contrast is poor design and poor universal design

• Contrast should be 3:1 ratio

• Contrast should remain constant even in an animated or live fluctuating state

• Infographics should have accompanying text explaining their purpose

• Horizontal bar graphs should run left to right

• Radial Graphs should always begin at a 12 o’clock midnight position

• Vertical Graphcs should always run top to bottom

• Minimum infographic stroke size should be 22 point