Table of contents

  1. Introduction to colour
  2. Using colour in bar charts
  3. Using colour in line charts
  4. Using colour in pie charts
  5. Using colour to connect information
  6. Choosing the right colours
  7. Tools
  8. Colour association
  9. Branding with colour
  10. Accessibility and colours
  11. Colour combinations
  12. Using red and green
  13. Further information about colour theory

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Tools

Use these tools to help ensure your colours are accessible:

  • Colorbrewer is a useful basic tool that allows you to choose 3 to 12 colours according to specified requirements, for example, colour-blind safe or diverging colours
  • Colorhexa allows greater control over choosing optimally distinct colours, a colour-blind simulator shows how colours appear to people with different types of colour blindness
  • Adobe Illustrator allows you to simulate different kinds of colour blindness