Accessible Color Sequences for Data Visualization
Summary
Six-, eight-, and ten-color cycles tuned for aesthetics, CVD, and grayscale; the ten-color set ships in Matplotlib.
Found by pairing a crowd-trained aesthetics model with accessibility constraints. The ten-color set is Matplotlib’s petroff10.
- Resource: Accessible Color Sequences for Data Visualization
- By: Matthew A. Petroff
- Published: 2021
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: palettes, accessibility, data-viz, scientist, research, python