Tag Archives: colour

A significant achievement

February 12, 2016 · by · in Colour, colour blindness, matplolib, palettes, Paper, python · Leave a comment

What an achievement! Yesterday, the lovely perceptually accurate open source colour palette, Viridis (we discussed it here) turned up in a major paper. The paper itself was on some gravity discovery or something, but we need to focus on what’s important here. Well done everyone.  

End of the rainbow

November 18, 2014 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, palettes · 7 Comments

Note: Better Figures is proud to support Ed Hawkins at Climate Lab Book, in calling for an end to the “Rainbow” palette. The text of an open letter to the climate science community, led by Ed, is reproduced below. An open letter to the climate science community Ed Hawkins, Doug McNeall, David Stephenson, Jonny Williams […]