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composition family
donut
Pie with a centred hole — a label or KPI sits in the middle.
Same encoding as a pie but the hole gives space for a headline number or label. Common in dashboards and IR decks where a KPI needs prominence on top of a composition.
When to use
Same as pie, plus you want to embed a single big number (total, headline metric) in the centre.
When NOT to use
5+ slices, small differences (same as pie).
Rhetorical roles
- distribute
Variants & related
Required primitives
- has_legend OR has_data_labels
Optional primitives
- has_title
- has_source_note
Common anti-patterns
- too-many-slices
- rainbow-palette
Disambiguation rules
- Pie with a centre cut-out.
- If two donuts sit side-by-side comparing populations, that is donut-multi.