Diagram template
Cost curve
PowerFour to sixteen adjacent bars sorted from lowest to highest value, each exactly as wide as its quantity along a cumulative quantity axis and as tall as its per-unit value from zero (negative values fall below it), with names and values inside bars that hold them, numbered leaders and a ledger for the rest, and an optional labeled reference line that shades bars above it more quietly, with a key naming both groups.
Categories
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Power, Max
When to use it
Suits supply curves (mines, plants or suppliers by capacity and unit cost against a market price), marginal abatement curves (measures by potential and cost per unit, with negative costs as savings, against a carbon price), and sourcing or procurement curves (suppliers by volume and price against a budget ceiling). Needs a positive quantity and a per-unit value for every item. Not for time series, shares of a whole or values without a quantity; use columns, a Marimekko or a bar chart for those.
Adjust after generating
Change the style, colors, and font, and these options, as often as you like without spending credits.
- Typography
- Spacing
What you fill in
Describe your topic in plain words and the AI fills these in. You can edit every field afterwards.
- X axis
- Label and optional unit
- Y axis
- Label and optional unit
- Bars
- 4 to 16, each with label, width, and value
- Reference line
- Value, label, below label, and above label
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