{"id":2359,"date":"2020-11-17T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/?post_type=tva_lesson&#038;p=2359"},"modified":"2023-04-27T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:55:39","slug":"color-accessibility-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/course\/color-accessibility-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Accessibility and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Color blindness<\/h2>\n<p>Color blindness affects millions of people worldwide: it is estimated that 260\u2013320 million total individuals are affected genetically. Estimated that 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are affected. However, color deficiencies of all kinds vary between individuals.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of classes of color vision deficiency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red-Weak\/Protanomaly<\/li>\n<li>Green-Weak\/Deuteranomaly<\/li>\n<li>Blue-Weak\/Tritanomaly<\/li>\n<li>Red-Blind\/Protanopia (one of the more common ones)<\/li>\n<li>Green-Blind\/Deuteranopia (another of the more common ones)<\/li>\n<li>Blue-Blind\/Tritanopia<\/li>\n<li>Monochromacy\/Achromatopsia<\/li>\n<li>Blue Cone Monochromacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How can you determine if you are affected by color blindness? There are various online tests, one of the more notable ones being from Enchroma: <a href=\"https:\/\/enchroma.com\/pages\/color-blindness-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/enchroma.com\/pages\/color-blindness-test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Color Blindness Simulator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coblis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.color-blindness.com\/coblis-color-blindness-simulator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/www.color-blindness.com\/coblis-color-blindness-simulator\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Color Pallets for Color Blindness<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ColorBrewer:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/colorbrewer2.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/colorbrewer2.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Viz Palette: <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.susielu.com\/viz-palette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/projects.susielu.com\/viz-palette<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cartocolors: <a href=\"https:\/\/carto.com\/carto-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/carto.com\/carto-colors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Viridis: <a href=\"https:\/\/waldyrious.net\/viridis-palette-generator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/waldyrious.net\/viridis-palette-generator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Color Palettes Inspiration<\/h2>\n<p>There are plenty of resources from where we can get inspiration on what color palettes to use for our data visualization. We can look at other data visualizations or get some inspiration from cinematography, art, and nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color palettes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Colors of Motion: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecolorsofmotion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/thecolorsofmotion.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Movies in Color: <a href=\"http:\/\/moviesincolor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">http:\/\/moviesincolor.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wes Anderson Palettes: <a href=\"http:\/\/wesandersonpalettes.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">http:\/\/wesandersonpalettes.tumblr.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Arts Experiments Art Palette: <a href=\"https:\/\/artsexperiments.withgoogle.com\/artpalette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/artsexperiments.withgoogle.com\/artpalette<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coolors.co: <a href=\"https:\/\/coolors.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/coolors.co<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adobe Color: <a href=\"https:\/\/color.adobe.com\/create\/color-wheel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/color.adobe.com\/create\/color-wheel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorsafe:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/colorsafe.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">http:\/\/colorsafe.co<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Contrast Ratio:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/contrast-ratio.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/contrast-ratio.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tristen Color Picker:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tristen.ca\/hcl-picker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">https:\/\/tristen.ca\/hcl-picker<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DeGraeve Color Palette Generator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degraeve.com\/color-palette\" 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