Great post on using color for emphasis in data viz! I'm a big fan of the "highlight a hero" strategy when there's a primary insight
You can even take that approach without color by reducing the opacity of everything else in the chart
You can even take that approach without color by reducing the opacity of everything else in the chart
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Cara Thompson
A few weeks ago, a client asked me for advice on how to make use of his new colour palette within spaghetti plots. What seemed like a simple question morphed into a full blog post!
www.cararthompson.com/posts/2025-0...
Colour can be used to emphasise different stories - pick the approach you need!
www.cararthompson.com/posts/2025-0...
Colour can be used to emphasise different stories - pick the approach you need!
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