List of references and resources relating to choice of plotting colours, fonts and other considerations for making data visualisations accessible.
Robert M. Boynton. (1989) Eleven Colors That Are Almost Never Confused. Proc. SPIE 1077, Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display, 322-332. http://doi.org/10.1117/12.952730
Kelly, K. L. (1965). Twenty-two colors of maximum contrast. Color Engineering, 3(26), 26–27.
Paul Green-Armytage (2010) A colour alphabet and the limits of colour coding. Colour: Design & Creativity, 5:1–23. https://eleanormaclure.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/colour-coding.pdf
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Tool for selecting colours for data vis. Paste in a set of colours and quickly see how they look in different chart types, and when rendered in greyscale. Includes simulations of deuteranomaly, protanomaly, protanopia, deuteranopia. https://projects.susielu.com/viz-palette
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Another tool for selecting datavis colours. Allows creation of palettes based on number of colours, with colourblind optimization option. https://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/
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Tool for simulating different forms of colorblindness http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
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Free tool for generating color schemes https://coolors.co
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Chrome extension for simulating color blindness. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorblindly/floniaahmccleoclneebhhmnjgdfijgg
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Article from Northwestern University Knight Lab https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/2016/07/18/three-tools-to-help-you-make-colorblind-friendly-graphics/
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Dyslexia friendly style guide from the British Dyslexia Association https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/advice/employers/creating-a-dyslexia-friendly-workplace/dyslexia-friendly-style-guide
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Blog post on color palettes for colorblindness http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colorblind/
- Free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux. Applies a software-independent full screen filter. http://colororacle.org/