The NPR Visuals team worked through these challenges this spring in a visualization for a story on how school districts spend money. It's an important choice for any visualization, but making one that's attractive, informative and easily distinguishable by colorblind people trips up many designers. Color is criticalĬolor is frequently used to quickly convey meaning. (If you're not colorblind and are interested in experiencing it, check out Dan Kaminsky’s iPhone app DanKam which uses augmented reality to let you experience the world through different color visions.)Īs information architects, data visualizers and web designers, we need to make our work accessible to as many people as possible, which includes people with colorblindness. Most of the time this has little impact on my day-to-day life, but as a news consumer and designer I often find myself struggling to read certain visualizations because my eyes just can’t distinguish the color scheme. Various color spectrums for different color vision deficiencies. To me some purples appear closer to blue some oranges and light greens appear closer to yellow dark greens and brown are sometimes indistinguishable. Specifically, I have a mild case of protanopia (also called protanomaly), which means that my eyes lack a sufficient number of retinal cones to accurately see red wavelengths. I am one of the 8% of men of Northern European descent who suffers from red-green colorblindness. Find the series introduction, as well as a list of published stories here. This story is part of a series on bringing the journalism we produce to as many people as possible, regardless of language, access to technology, or physical capability.
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