: Most believable way to draw multiple tiles on top of each other I am terrible with graphic design but I'm trying to make a figure in Keynote where squares are drawn on top of each other

@Alves566

If the time is from bottom to top representing history till today, I would usually go by most transparent in the furthest past, and most intransparent for today, because memories become unsure, at least that's the idea.

Reaching into the future, I would probably get more transparent again.

For dashed lines I have no hint.

Probably I would stack the frames from bottom left to top right, because users of Latin alphabets read from left to right. In scientific papers, graphs about time go from left to right, but since left to right is only intended as a perspective effect, I don't consider it to be important, so if other aesthetic reasons lead to a different preference, I would give the idea up, easily.

And I would try it out and compare it with my eyes, not just the brain.

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