🚨 New blog post! 🚨 If you want to learn about: 🎨 Monochrome colour palettes 📊 Designing better black & white visualisations 🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochr... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies - ThreadSky

nrennie.bsky.social • 23 days ago

🚨 New blog post! 🚨

If you want to learn about:

🎨 Monochrome colour palettes
📊 Designing better black & white visualisations
🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design

Read this ➡️ https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochrome-data-visualisations/

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

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brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•9 days ago

at least in my firefox browser, your blog has a **very common problem: the text is hard to read cause there is not enough contrast between the font color and the background color
yours

nrennie.bsky.social•9 days ago

That's very interesting and good to know - especially since the colour contrast between the background and text was checked and passes all tests: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=2F4F4F&bcolor=F0F5F5

nrennie.bsky.social•9 days ago

Although a pure white background would improve contrast for some people, it would also increase accessibility issues for others. I find Reading Mode helpful for changing the background/text colours of websites to suit different people's needs:

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•9 days ago

Back around 2,000 microsoft office had a whole palette of cross hatchs and so forth
and I think there is still an extension
or maybe not

this was the best I could find on a quick google
https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/learn/fillslinesandeffects/2016/add-pattern-fills-to-shapes.html

nrennie.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes, it seems you can also add pattern fills to charts made with Excel: https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-charts-tips/ (although not something I have experience of personally)

datarocksnz.bsky.social•22 days ago

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shurastei.bsky.social•23 days ago

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mattkerlogue.bsky.social•23 days ago

This was a fab post, thanks. Far too few think about these sorts of issues so it's great to have a resource to point to on it.

mattkerlogue.bsky.social•23 days ago

Re the missing data point you make at the end. Thinking of the facet chart you show I've sometimes displayed missing data as an outline/unfilled circle, or used a different shape (e.g an x).

nrennie.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thanks - I really like the idea of unfilled points to represent missing data

morgana-kinlan.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you for including a section on shapes and patterns! I like finding new ways to reach audiences that have varying degrees of color blindness (you would be surprised how often that comes up!) Anything I can do to make my work available to a larger audience or easier to understand.

kobenhavn-kbh.bsky.social•23 days ago

📌

raoulmansukhani.bsky.social•23 days ago

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