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Dichromat Chloe (4% of scientists)

@dichromat-chloe.bsky.social

Advocating for color accessibility in scientific figures. 4% of scientists are colorblind.

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This picture of Pope Francis, happy in his Bird of Paradise traditional headset, was taken during his visit of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This small city gave its name to one of these Diverging scientific color palettes (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)

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💙💜💛 CMY

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Chartreuse and Pink 👍

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💛💙 (orange and azure)

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💛💙💜 Cyan Magenta Yellow contrasts in both microscopy images and heatmaps throughout the paper 💛💙💜

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uh oh

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Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.

My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

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Ohh Lennard I'm so sorry, that makes sense, I'll take a break from being the RedGreen Police for the holidays.
Mea Culpa, and thank you for your kind reply!

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❤️💙 (cyan)

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was ist das?

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Colour-blind Safe Palettes — glasbey documentation

Also useful to generate extended palettes:
glasbey.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...

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🙏 thank you.
I believe Okabe_Ito really is optimal for 8 categories.
for more info on increasing the number of colors in the palette, consider bsky.app/profile/dich...

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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

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We are partial to the "polychrome" palette when there are tens of single-cell clusters to distinguish, over the default ggplot colors. Even without a named handicap I can't distinguish the pinks or green-cyan-blue neighbors.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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