I produced this line chart for a Makeover Monday post where I redesigned a deceptive bar chart from School District 43’s (SD43) Budget 2024/25 Multi-year Fiscal Plan document.
The big issue with the original is that the bar’s y-axis did not start at zero. Bar charts compare length, so they must always start at zero.
The only stylistic elements I duplicated were the palette colours, since the original chart relied on Excel default settings.