Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
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Evolution of Lego brick colors
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An interactive guide to color and contrast
Color and contrast choices often are a product of personal preferences, but you…
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Improved color palettes in R
Achim Zeileis and Paul Murrell provide a rundown of the more user-friendly color…
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Misuse of the rainbow color scheme to visualize scientific data
Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…
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Color palette generator
In the never-ending quest to find the perfect color scheme for any given…
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Mapping extreme heat
For Bloomberg, Marie Patino reports on the shifting design choices for mapping weather…
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A plea to stop climate change from the guy who makes maps
For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…
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Diagram of watercolors from the 17th century
In 1692, artist A. Boogert published a guide to watercolors, showing the thousands…
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A color tool for accessible schemes
Leonardo is an open source project from Adobe that helps you pick accessible…
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Defining color palettes for all your charts
Selecting a color palette for a single chart can be tricky, which is…
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Colors for All, R package
If you use color as a visual encoding, you should make sure every…
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Chicken egg color spectrum
Eggs aren’t always white, which is oddly calming in this photo by way…
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Painbow color scale
xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers.…
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Find a color palette based on words
PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…
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Average color of geographic areas
Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around…
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How to Make Alluvial Diagrams
Here’s how to do it in R from start to finish, plus editing in illustration software. Make design choices and trade-offs for more readable charts.
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Colors of Bob Ross explored
Connor Rothschild charted all the colors Bob Ross used in The Joy of…
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Generate a color analysis by uploading an image
Mel Dollison and Liza Daly made a fun interactive that lets you upload…
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Varying colors of state guidance maps
Many states use color to represent levels of Covid-19 and/or county restrictions. The…
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Analysis of color names used with makeup
For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…
