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Add 15-colorblind friendly palette #51

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briochemc opened this issue Nov 16, 2020 · 6 comments
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Add 15-colorblind friendly palette #51

briochemc opened this issue Nov 16, 2020 · 6 comments

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@briochemc
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Not sure about how it should be named, but this palette could be a nice addition for many categories I guess:

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Link to poster: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/biovis2012/krzywinski-visualizing-biological-data.pdf

Not sure about copyright either.

@cormullion
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Reading this suggests that a max of 8 colors is preferred.

This also recommends the following:

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It's easy to add those with these names...

@briochemc
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Yes, I agree, my response on slack literally minutes ago was "11 categories is a lot to ask for a colorblind-friendly palette". But then I remembered this one, and thought it could be useful for, well... extreme cases of many categories!

@briochemc
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Ha I also remember reading the Paul Tol blog (https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/#sec:qualitative)! These are also pretty nice and would be a nice addition IMHO 😄

@cormullion
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cormullion commented Nov 16, 2020

I added a few, currently on master. Docs will show:

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@briochemc
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I think this can be closed then, no? Or should it stay open until this makes it into a release?

@cormullion
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No problem - thanks!

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