Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization
Summary
Colors that match what a category means — blue for water, yellow for banana — make charts faster to read.
- Resource: Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization
- By: Sharon Lin, Julie Fortuna, Chinmay Kulkarni, Maureen Stone & Jeffrey Heer
- Published: 2013
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: perception, color-scales, data-viz, designer, scientist, research