Outline graphics provide concurrent access to both visual and verbal elements. Their logic is primarily but not exclusively verbal. They rely upon the visual aspects of layout design and symbology to compress the several ideas of a conceptual cluster into a single comprehensible holistic display. This paper introduces new terminology and lists and describes the characteristics and advantages of outline graphics. Examples are given of ways in which outline graphics have been used in instructional design and of the adaptive pliability of the graphic form which provides flexibility in making form fit functional need. Four references are listed. (Author/LMM)