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		jefecoon on March 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which color scale to use when visualizing data Great article exploring specific colormaps and applications, incl discussion of pros/cons of popular maps [ e.g. Cividis better for color-blind viewing than Viridis, but is a more simplistic blue--yellow scale than others which utilize higher number of colors ]: https://www.kennethmoreland.com/color-advice/ Great, widely-referenced site for quickly generating color scales, w color-blind safe options, and large amount of research behind it: https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3

erex78 on March 17, 2021 | [–]

At Mapsense we would always refer to Color Brewer https://colorbrewer2.org/. Basically takes the thinking out of the equation.

Cd00d on March 17, 2021 | [–]

Great resource in colorbrewer2 - thank you!

I have several color blind colleagues and am regularly concerned I'm not displaying visuals in a way that is easy for them to digest.

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