People are usually not great at remembering exact colors. Dialed is a fun…
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Dialed, a color memory game
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10k bird species visualized with feathers
Jer Thorp visualized 10,151 species of birds as feathers, with colors based on…
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Fashion color counting
As fashion changes, so do the colors used each season. Sarah Constantin likes…
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House colors as an indicator for gentrification
It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of…
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Natural System of Colours, a recreation of 18th century color wheels
In 1766, Moses Harris published The Natural System of Colours to demonstrate that…
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Heatmaps and Defining Color Scales
With color as the visual encoding, choose the scales that allow you to see actual patterns.
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Color picker with R
As we have learned over the years, there can never be enough color-picking…
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Rainbow Sky, the colors mentioned on Bluesky
Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky…
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Color Buddy, a tool for building color palettes for visualization
Picking colors for visualization can be tricky, because there are infinite possibilities across…
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Huetone for accessible color systems
There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
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Re-Edit: Odd Color Choice for a Map
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.
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Evolution of Lego brick colors
Lego started with five brick colors: red, yellow, blue, white, and clear. The…
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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…




















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
