Harbour & Co.
Annual Review
Take the hardest version of the problem: a mid-sized logistics business with eleven pages of statutory tables, a chair's statement nobody would read voluntarily, and a photo library consisting almost entirely of container yards.
The question every annual report client asks is whether the numbers can be legible and the document still worth forwarding. Here is how we would answer it.
- Format
- Annual report
- Typical extent
- 48 pages
Decisions
Tables set at two densities
Summary figures at reading size in the narrative section; full statutory tables at a tighter setting in their own back section, with tabular figures throughout so columns align.
One chart language
Every chart drawn from the same small set of rules — one accent, one neutral, no gridlines except where a value must be read off. Charts exported straight from a spreadsheet were rebuilt.
Photography treated, not decorated
Container-yard photography is repetitive by nature, so it runs as full-bleed section openers at large scale rather than being scattered as small images across text pages.
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