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specialized family
sparkline
Tiny inline trend chart — typography-sized.
Small line/bar charts embedded inside text or tables. No axes, no labels, just the shape. Edward Tufte's "intense, simple, word-sized graphics".
When to use
Embedded in tables or paragraph text where the shape complements the number.
When NOT to use
Standalone — sparklines lose meaning without surrounding context.
Rhetorical roles
- evolve
Variants & related
Required primitives
_(none)_
Optional primitives
- has_data_labels
Common anti-patterns
- missing-label
Disambiguation rules
- Tiny chart (~1 line of text tall) embedded in another element.
- Often appears in tables — one sparkline per row.