Under the mantra: ‘Make use of colorblind friendly graphs’

Duccio Rocchini; Ludovico Chieffallo; Elisa Thouverai; Rossella D'Introno; Francesca Dagostin; Emma Donini; Giles Foody; Simon Garnier; Guilherme G. Mazzochini; Vitezslav Moudry; Bob Rudis; Petra Simova; Michele Torresani; Jakub Nowosad

doi:10.1002/env.2877

Under the mantra: ‘Make use of colorblind friendly graphs’

Duccio Rocchini, Ludovico Chieffallo, Elisa Thouverai, Rossella D'Introno, Francesca Dagostin, Emma Donini, Giles Foody, Simon Garnier, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, Vitezslav Moudry, Bob Rudis, Petra Simova, Michele Torresani, Jakub Nowosad

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Colorblindness is a genetic condition that affects a person's ability to accurately perceive colors. Several papers still exist making use of rainbow colors palette to show output. In such cases, for colorblind people such graphs are meaningless. In this paper, we propose good practices and coding solutions developed in the R Free and Open Source Software to (i) simulate colorblindness, (ii) develop colorblind friendly color palettes and (iii) provide the tools for converting a noncolorblind friendly graph into a new image with improved colors.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e2877
Journal	Environmetrics
Volume	35
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877
State	Published - Sep 2024

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Statistics and Probability
Ecological Modeling

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colorblindness
colors
R software
science dissemination
scientific graphs

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