color

For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…

The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.

Lauren Baldo illustrated how he applies color theory in his paintings and illustrations.…

Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…

In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, the…

I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…

Picular is a simple tool that lets you search for a topic, and…

Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…

The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…

Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…

Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…

Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…

These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.

Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…

Nathanael Aff poked at LEGO brickset data with some text mining methods in…

As the final episode of Game of Thrones nears, Kavya Sukumar for Vox…

While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…

Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…

Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…

Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…