color

Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky…

Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across…

There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…

Choosing colors can seem like a burden when you just want to make something quick, which is why some people just use default color schemes. But the few extra minutes is worth it.

Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…

Color and contrast choices often are a product of personal preferences, but you…

Achim Zeileis and Paul Murrell provide a rundown of the more user-friendly color…

Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…

In the never-ending quest to find the perfect color scheme for any given…

For Bloomberg, Marie Patino reports on the shifting design choices for mapping weather…

For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…

In 1692, artist A. Boogert published a guide to watercolors, showing the thousands…

Leonardo is an open source project from Adobe that helps you pick accessible…

Selecting a color palette for a single chart can be tricky, which is…

If you use color as a visual encoding, you should make sure every…

Eggs aren’t always white, which is oddly calming in this photo by way…

xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers.…

PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…

Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around…