Tag: color

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

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

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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Simone Betito

REVIEW: Edith Young’s Color Scheme Is the Whimsical Data Visualization Book We Need Right Now

Color Scheme, An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes is not your typical data visualization book. It may be due to..
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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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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

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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Amy Cesal

How to Create Brand Colors for Data Visualization Style Guidelines

The most common push back I hear about creating a unique style guide for data visualization, is “We have a style guide for the brand,..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Colorizing a Visualization

The flow chart above diagrams the process of colorizing a visualization using blank templates from the Interaction of Color app, an invaluable tool both for learning about..
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Michael Yi

How to Choose Colors for Your Data Visualizations

Color is a major factor in creating effective charts. A good set of colors will highlight the story you want the data to tell, while..