I like using https://coolors.co/ - press space to generate a new palette and lock in colours you like
Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
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Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#12Whenever I need colors for a chart, I type "12 bit" in my address bar and pray my browser hasn't forgotten the URL: https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
Adding another link, here's the one I often use: https://flatuicolors.com
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#13Strange that the SVG output is just a set of colour boxes, when SVG has a perfectly decent gradient format defined.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorials/S...
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#14I was just actually showing a colleague perceptually uniform color scales just today!
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#15Whenever I need colors for a chart, I type "12 bit" in my address bar and pray my browser hasn't forgotten the URL: https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
Those are very good colors!
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#16Whenever I need colors for a chart, I type "12 bit" in my address bar and pray my browser hasn't forgotten the URL: https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/
Please don't use rainbow-type palettes, as they generally have poor accessibility for colorblind individuals. With my red deficiency, the middle two colors in this palette look virtually identical.
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#17This will come in very handy for me. Thanks for working on this and putting out there.
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#18Does using a range of hues generate colors that can be differentiated by those of us who are color blind?
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#19Careful, this is really not good for folks who are color blind. In chromium devtools you can enable various color blind emulations in the device emulation menu. ctrl+shift+P -> "Protanopia"
Re: Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)
#20I also recommend Color Brewer, which is integrated already in a lot of visualization tools, and has great options for display variants and accessibility options : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorBrewer
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