Let R be a ring with unity. The idempotent graph G Id (R) of a ring R is an undirected simple graph whose vertices are the set of all the elements of ring R and two vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if x + y is an idempotent element of R. In this paper, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition on the ring R such that G Id (R) is planar. We prove that G Id (R) cannot be an outerplanar graph. Moreover, we classify all the finite non-local commutative rings R such that G Id (R) is a cograph, split graph and threshold graph, respectively. We conclude that latter two graph classes of G Id (R) are equivalent if and only2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 05C25.