# How to Pick More Beautiful Colors for Your Data Visualizations

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/spectrum-article
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/beautifulcolors
Added: 2024-03-01

## Summary

Pick chart colors so lightness, not only hue, separates and orders them.

- Resource: [How to Pick More Beautiful Colors for Your Data Visualizations](https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/beautifulcolors)
- By: Lisa Charlotte Muth
- Published: 2018
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: data-viz, color-scales, color-spaces, cielab, designer, tutorial

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