![]() ![]() Flow charts and step-by-step guides are considered guides, so are visual references that line up different types of something next to one another other.Īn infographic is more educational in layout and content, finding something specific on an infographic is not as easy because it is designed to inform through more narrative structures. Guides are typically laid out in a grid configuration of some sort or sectioned into multiple tables by a category or step of a process. On top of that not all guides are created equal, many technically qualify as guides, but lack substance. If someone has to visually bop around your guide to find what they are looking for, the guide does not pass the layout test. The layout or structure of a guide must be that so, when someone is trying to find/reference information from the guide, they can do so logically or simply. It takes both content and layout to make something a guide. While some may think the packaging implies that GIF and Jif rhyme, according to the two companies-and a series of accompanying GIFs on GIPHY-the opposite is true.Guides are reference materials, how-tos, and/or comparison tables. The two companies unveiled a limited-edition jar of peanut butter in Jif’s trademark packaging, but labeled “Gif”. Online GIF site GIPHY teamed up with Jif peanut butter to have some fun with the debate. Newsweek declares it GIF with a hard G and has a linguistics professor to back them up. Mental Floss wades into the debate with the help of a linguistics professor for a comprehensive analysis, ultimately deciding that both sides are correct and that the g in GIF “really can go either way.” July 2016: ![]() That’s why when everyone comes across the word for the first time, they use a hard G.” August 2015: “It’s the most natural, logical way to pronounce it. August 2014:ĭesigner Aaron Bazinet launches website,, arguing for the hard g pronunciation. June 2014:Ī survey of more than 1,000 Americans were asked whether they “pronounce GIF as ‘jiff’ or ’gift‘” and “‘gift’ handily beat ‘jiff,‘ nearly 54% to 41%.” It was conduced by eBay Deals and a digital marketing agency. President Barack Obama chooses a side, announcing his “official position” is that it is pronounced GIF with a hard g like grape. Smucker Company, which owns Jif, agreed with Wilhite’s pronunciation, tweeting, ”It’s pronounced JIF”. “Pffffffffffffff,” posted one “Graphics Interchange Format. Gizmodo declared him “wrong” and Twitter filled with people expressing their disagreement. Many people on the internet disagree with Wilhite. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” But it’s not so simple. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite told The New York Times. “It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Just like the peanut butter. Wilhite receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Webby Awards and used his platform to make his declaration. The White House announces its new Tumblr page where, according to New York magazine, it threw down the pronunciation gauntlet with an illustration that told visitors to the page that they can expect “ANIMATED GIFs (‘HARD G’).” This was the same year that we got GIPHY, a GIF database people could search for the GIFs they wanted. ![]()
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