Finary
Co-founded by Mounir Laggoune
A French wealth management app whose in-house video team turns numbers into short animated visuals for YouTube and social feeds, in the same dark, gold-accented style as the product.
What you will find
- Short videos where the chart builds itself on screen
- Before and after comparisons animated side by side
- One visual identity shared by the app and its content
What we can learn from it
- 01Animation as narration: let the data fill in, so the viewer watches the change happen
- 02Stack the two periods on the same grid and the same scale, so the comparison needs no explaining
- 03A running counter keeps the headline number in view while the picture builds
Examples worth studying
- VideoCommits in 2020 against 2026, as two contribution calendars
A post by co-founder Mounir Laggoune: two GitHub-style calendars, one per year on the same grid of weeks and days, light up day by day while each year’s commit counter climbs. The post is about coding with AI; the video makes the point without reading a word.
Chart types you will meet there
Heatmap
A grid of cells coloured by value, showing patterns across two categorical dimensions.
Line chart
Shows how a measure changes across an ordered, continuous axis, usually time.
Area chart
A line chart with the area beneath it washed in, emphasising volume over time.
Donut chart
A pie with the centre removed, leaving room for the total or the share being discussed.
Similar sites
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless’s studio site: facts and data turned into designed graphics, many of them interactive and kept up to date, alongside the Information is Beautiful Awards for work by others.
The Pudding
A digital publication of visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture, from music and film to language and the internet.
Visual Capitalist
A Vancouver publisher of daily infographics on markets, energy, technology and demographics, usually redrawn from third-party data.