Use negative space in your layouts.
It’s easy to get carried away trying to pack as much information into your infographic as possible. The result is an infographic that is cluttered and hard to read. How do you avoid overburdening your infographic with tightly-packed content? Respect negative space.
Negative space is the empty space around a defining object. When objects are positioned too closely together, they become more difficult to distinguish from each other. Surrounding each object with some negative space gives readers pause to process a point before moving on to the next one.
Let’s take another look at my first infographic: