§ 6 · components

The atoms a slide is made of.

Each component family has a definition, an anatomy, exemplars from the corpus, and a catalog of anti-patterns. The most exhaustive layer of the matryoshka — and the one closest to the keyboard.

Fig. 6 · A

What a slide is made of — atom census across 309k slides

Titles title 94.7% 355,589 atoms
Text paragraph · list · callout · quote 66.7% 475,051 atoms
Chrome subtitle · source-note · disclaimer 49.1% 175,691 atoms
Images image · illustration 37.5% 181,311 atoms
Charts chart · legend 25.9% 133,582 atoms
Tables table 19% 68,002 atoms
Diagrams diagram · framework 9.2% 31,617 atoms
Metric metric (hero stat) 8.2% 71,313 atoms

Every slide is decomposed into its component families. Titles and chrome are near-universal. Charts, diagrams and tables are the rare carriers of dense argument.

source · corpus.components · 1.6M atoms classified

track index

Eight families. One catalog.

Each family is its own page with the standard four sections — definition, anatomy, what good looks like, anti-patterns. Titles and Charts are published; the rest are open shelves.

§ 1

What it is