I choose the Private Student Loan by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau government PDF as a document that has obscured information because of poor design. All of the documents text is placed awkwardly to the left while the right side has a lot of free space. This misuse of white space creates cramped text in the overall design. The top screenshot is from the PDF and it has a green and purple bar graph, which has a lot of problems from the design point of view. From the design point of view the color choice for the bar graph is just horrible. The dark green and purple blend in with each other and it is very hard to tell where one ends and the next begins. There is very little contrast between the two colors and therefore the graph is unable to show the separation between “school certified” and “direct to consumer” loans. Looking at the bar graph also hurts the eyes because of how the two colors effect each other and our perception of depth. The second screenshot has another infographic, but this one is a diagram with symbolic schools, that at first look like churches. The way that the designers did the percentages on the schools is very weird in that the 5% is barely visible. If they had simply added a little more to the whole and proportioned it through out the other symbols, it would look a lot better.
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