Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…
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Alternatives to the rainbow color scale
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Choosing color palettes for choropleth maps
Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…
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4 Tools to Pick Your Chart Colors
These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.
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CARTOColors is a quick set of color schemes to copy
Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…
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LEGO color scheme classifications
Nathanael Aff poked at LEGO brickset data with some text mining methods in…
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Color profiles of every Game of Thrones episode
As the final episode of Game of Thrones nears, Kavya Sukumar for Vox…
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All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors
While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
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Most popular colors used by most popular sites
Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…
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Generate color palettes automatically
Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…
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Using clustering to make a color scale
Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…
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Colorgorical generates color schemes for you
Sometimes you need a color scheme quick, and ColorBrewer is typically the de…
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Practical guide for color correction of satellite images
Robert Simmon provides a hands-on guide to get true color from satellite imagery.…
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Evolving LEGO color palette
DaveE from the Brickset Forum was curious about the changing LEGO color palette,…
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Hearing color instead of seeing it
Neil Harbisson is completely color blind, so he has a device that lets him listen to color.
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Game tests your color-matching skills
Simple and surprisingly challenging.
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A color analysis of Western films
Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…
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Testing broken computer colors
Computers can calculate an infinite number of colors, but our brains can only…
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Color timeline for Avengers comic book covers
The Avengers comic has been around since 1963 and the look and feel…
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Color use in paintings, by year
Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…
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English versus Chinese color descriptors
Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
