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Urban's data visualization styleguide

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Color combinations don't communicate default ordering

awunderground opened this issue · comments

The graphics style guide offers no guidance on the default or suggested ordering of colors for data visualizations. It would be great if the palette with eight colors reflected the default order for adding colors.

colors1

The subsequent groupings should then reflect the order from above.

color2

color3

color4

library(urbnthemes) adds colors in this order: #1696d2, #fdbf11, #000000, #d2d2d2, #ec008b, #55b748, #5c5859, #db2b27

Per @bchartoff 's recommendation, the order for categorical colors should be:

"#1696d2", "#fdbf11", "#000000", "#d2d2d2", "#ec008b", "#55b748", "#5c5859", "#db2b27”
(Cyan, yellow, black, grey, magenta, green, space grey, red)

Addressed in #21