Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: scale bar
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

encoding

scale bar

Segment of known length placed on the image to give its scale.

Classification

  • encoding

Sources (6)

17 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/scale-bar.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. scale bar. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/scale-bar.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-scale-bar,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {scale bar},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/scale-bar.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-11-09. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.