Colour is NEVER enough: always pair with a pattern. Or better: plan for b/w only. No one will manage to catch ALL types of colour blindness by colour alone. This is one of my pet pevees when reading scientific papers (along with the formatting, which defies 100’s of years of research on legibility…) - ThreadSky

Colour is NEVER enough: always pair with a pattern. Or better: plan for b/w only. No one will manage to catch ALL types of colour blindness by colour alone.
This is one of my pet pevees when reading scientific papers (along with the formatting, which defies 100’s of years of research on legibility…)

Reposted from Christine Beeton

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

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