Semantic Discriminability for Visual Communication
Summary
Whether viewers can match colors to concepts without a legend depends on how distinct the colors’ associations are.
In bar-chart tests, that semantic distance mattered more than perceptual distance.
- Resource: Semantic Discriminability for Visual Communication
- By: Karen B. Schloss, Zachary Leggon & Laurent Lessard
- Published: 2020
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: perception, palettes, data-viz, scientist, designer, research