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The term infographic is a term used to designate a type of graphic characterized by providing through images or information designs of different types depending on the topic that is touched on in each case. Infographics are an informal and much more attractive way to communicate since they seek to call the attention of the person who observes them from the use of colors, images or designs especially selected. Infographics do not usually contain too much information but it is provided in limited quantity since the central thing about this type of graphics is the design per se. In general, an infographic takes the information from the images themselves and represents it in small and short texts that make their reading much faster and more agile.

It can be said that the last decades of the 20th century have shown a very important development of images and the visual, for which to communicate Through this type of elements it is today much more common and comfortable since in this way the attention of the reader. They are thus differentiated from normal texts or images that do not provide any type of information, being able to place them in the intermediate place between these two options.

An infographic can vary in size depending on the medium in which it is made (whether the infographic is located in a magazine or Newspaper, in a user information, on a page of Internet or in a book). The realization of an infographic is a combined work of both those people who know information on a topic (such as journalists, historians, statesmen, etc.) and designers graphics that will be responsible, once the information is collected and selected, to arrange it in such a way that the most important or colorful data attract the attention of the person who reads it or visualize.