So I’ve changed palettes to be more in line with the colors that one would expect to find, as set forth by Stephen Few. The red has an orange tinge, the green is shaded somewhat towards blue, the blue is a bit purplish, etc. At this point, though, I’ve decided I’m not terribly fond of this palette: the colors are fine together, but they are not the “pure” colors I’d like. The new tool is available at .Īfter my earlier article about chart colors, I used a ColorBrewer-derived palette in Excel 2003. In Mark Harrower of Axis Maps announced Color Brewer 2, which updates the 8-year-old Color Brewer (that’s 56 in dog years, and 80 in web years, as Mark says). I mentioned the Color Brewer, a neat little utility for selecting colors and designing color palettes. In Using Colors in Excel Charts I discussed a lot of details about Excel colors, predominantly in Excel 2003, and specifically with charting in mind.
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