A detailed guide to colors in data vis style guides

A detailed guide to colors in data vis style guides

I spend a lot of my time making data visualisations. But there’s one thing I’m still hopeless at: picking colours. They can make or break a design project, but are deceivingly hard to master. Lisa Muth from Datawrapper is here to help: she has just published an incredibly in-depth overview of all things related to colour and design. It’s one bookmark I will come back to again and again.

  Guest curated by Hannah Ritchie

From Weekly Filet #Special, in April 2022.

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