Party colour schemes

[aaronrudkin]

I assigned colour schemes to parties earlier in development. The colour schemes are: red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple, pinkpurple, grey, brown

You can see which colour each party is in based on the little left border strips in the party list, or by clicking into the party page and observing the scheme used:
http://voteview.polisci.ucla.edu/parties/all

I don't have the substantive knowledge to know if my colour choices were at all appropriate. The idea was to ensure that concurrent major parties would use different colours. Beyond that, I didn't really have any priorities.

This issue is to allow people to review my colour choices and suggest if anything should be in a different colour category.

In addition, we should consider reallocating people off yellow; yellow is not recommended for use on a white background. It's the only palette that doesn't come from ColorBrewer. It's generally not recommended. It's bad on low contrast screens, it goes bad with f.lux, etc.

I'll close the issue if no one has any input. In addition, if Erik finds anything out about historical party colours in his research, I'll set them accordingly.

[aaronrudkin]

I take 6 weeks of silence as evidence no one feels strongly about this, so I will re-allocate to post-launch. Please feel free to submit updates or input on the colour schemes here at any point.