I just published the next part of our "What to consider..." series: Colors. Because every single chart needs them. blog.datawrapper.de/colors
Thanks to all the great people who've written about color before. That's basically everyone, but the writings of these ones helped me in particular: Colin Ware, @tamaramunzner, @rsimmon, @alangwilson, @Elijah_Meeks, @visualisingdata, @eagereyes & @kbschloss's @datastories episode
@lisacrost @jscarto More people need to see this before they make maps. Especially about the gradients
@lisacrost I'm glad to see that we don't violate any of these rules in Vega-Lite and use them in smart default or warn if users violate them. @vega_vis
@lisacrost Wait there are people who like readers?
@lisacrost @jason_nge As one with blue-green issues, anything with red hurts like no other. The blue/orange pie chart is excellemt, but the red lines or shading on other examples really makes my brain do backflips trying to untangle everything. Pink, orange, etc are all good.
@lisacrost Great post. I reposted this on LinkedIn hope it’s ok for you @lisacrost
@lisacrost timely post Lisa! just about to talk to others in the company about choosing colors for visualization :)
@lisacrost Really good work Lisa, this is great! As someone who studied color and cognition, I fully approve.
@lisacrost Love the way you present these series. Helpful and cute.
@lisacrost Can you eventually share the scale you used for this bars? Thank you.
@lisacrost Excellent work, thanks. Can you please give some advice? I find greenish colors very poorly displayed at projectors, like blue, so I prefer to avoid them. As well as gray lines. Perfect for publications, too messy (generally) for presentations. What's your experience?