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Viz Palette Helps You Pick Colors for Your Maps and Data Visualizations

April 12, 2018By Caitlin DempseyGIS Software

There’s a new color picker tool to help with selecting a palette for data visualizations.

The default style for the Ordnance Survey (top) as compared to the new color blind friendly scheme (bottom).

Making Color Blind Friendly Maps

May 22, 2011By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

It’s estimated that about 7% of males are color blind in some form (as compared with 0.4% of females). While a very small percentage don’t see color at all, the most common form of color blindness is the inability to differentiate red and green colors. One area that color […]