On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 3:16 AM duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> wrote: > > Hello, > Not really specific to Python or matplotlib (but that's what I'm > using). I'm looking for a good combination of colours and symbols for > scatter plots, and combination of colours and line styles for line > plots. Too often I find myself producing these when I don't know whether > they will end up being printed in colour or greyscale. It would be a lot > easier if I could produce decent plots that would work well in either > case. I can find various stuff on colour palettes, but pretty much > nothing on symbols or line styles. Is anybody aware of an approach that > works well? I'm aware of issues with colour blindness and RGB versus > CMYK. Ideally I'd have something that I could just use that would deal > with all these issues. TIA. >
I'd recommend looking at the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C; there are a number of tools out there that are designed to help you pick colours for a web page, and the same sorts of rules will apply here, I think. Also, thank you for even *thinking* about this. A lot of people don't. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
