The Generative AI Blues: Choosing Data Color Schemes with Adobe’s Firefly
Follow these steps to explore color choices with Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model. Plus: the color theory behind the process.
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Viva Magenta and Waterfall Experiences in Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss ways to use Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year, Viva Magenta to colorize your data visualizations. I create two bar..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Watching for Peas and Carrots: Solving the Green and Orange Dilemma in Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss the challenge of working with a green and orange color scheme in data visualization. Unfortunately, 99 percent of people with..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Blue and Yellow: A Matter of Complements
Very often the combination of blue and yellow suggests the color green. In this writing I provide a different perspective on this combination. I discuss..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Very Peri Pantone 2022 Divergence for Data Visualization
There are situations in data visualization where your client asks you to build a color scheme around a specific color and also contrast data values..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Very Peri Pantone 2022 for Your Visualizations
In early December 2021, Very Peri was announced as the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year. Today, let’s explore how to integrate this new color..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
My Journey in Un-Colorizing a Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss my adventure in transitioning my “Process of Colorizing a Data Visualization” to a Greyscale illustration. I learned that it was actually a..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Color Scheming from a Vintage Visualization
In this writing, I discuss how to build fresh color schemes from a vintage visualization. I use a bubble chart created in the 1890s as..
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Nightingale Editors
Five Years of the Nightingale Community!
In July 2019, a new publication emerged in the world of data visualization. Nightingale set out to fill a void in the community, offering a..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Five Steps to a Diverging and Contrasting Color Scheme for Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss the similarities between a Complementary Color Harmony and a Diverging Color Scheme for data visualization. The final results can look..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Getting Physical with Perceptual Uniform Color Schemes: The Journey from HCL to CMYK and Pantone
In this writing, I discuss how to move your data visualization created with a Hue Chroma Luminance (HCL) color scheme to a physical or hard..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Creating a Perceptual Uniform Color Scheme By Combining I Want Hue And Viz Palette
In this writing, I discuss how to use the “i want hue” web app with Viz Palette to create perceptually uniform color schemes for data..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Perceptual Uniformity with HCL Wizard
In this writing, I discuss how to build a Color Scheme for your data visualization with the freely accessible web app called HCL Wizard. HCL..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Color in a Perceptual Uniform Way
This writing discusses the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space that is tailored to how we see colors as humans. In my previous writings on colorizing data..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
From Triad to Qualitative
In this writing, I discuss how to work with a Triad color harmony to create a qualitative color scheme. Qualitative color schemes use colors to label different..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Simply Scattered: Enhancing Color With Geometry in a Visualization
In my previous “Colorizing a Visualization” writing, I covered the analogous and complementary color harmonies. Today, I will discuss a hybrid of the two harmonies..
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