On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick…
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Which color scale to use for your charts
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More Colors vs. Fewer Colors – The Process 127
The two approaches answer two different questions.
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Colour Controversy is a game of perception and labeling
Colour Controversy is a simple game that shows you a shade and asks…
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Picking the right colors for your charts
Picking colors for your charts can be tricky, especially when you’re starting a…
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Illustrated color catalog of minerals
Between 1802 and 1817, James Sowerby cataloged and illustrated 718 minerals across seven…
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Color breakdown of Scientific American covers
For Scientific American, Nicholas Rougeux and Jen Christiansen show the shift in hues…
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Color palettes browsable in context
Color scheme selections are nice and all, but they’re even better when viewed…
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Fashion runway color palette
From Google Arts & Culture:
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Fall foliage colors mapped
For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
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Straying from the Blue-Pink Color Scheme to Represent Gender in Visualization (The Process #55)
The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.
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Illustrated color theory
Lauren Baldo illustrated how he applies color theory in his paintings and illustrations.…
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Colors of Tintin
Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…
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Color distribution in campaign logos
In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, the…
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Interactive recreation of an 1821 color guidebook
I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…
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A search engine for color palettes
Picular is a simple tool that lets you search for a topic, and…
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Synesthesia used to paint numbers through color
Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…
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Visualization color picker, based on perception research
The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…
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Choropleth map design considerations
Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…
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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale
Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…
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Choosing color palettes for choropleth maps
Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…