Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'

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

Abstract

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.

Citation

Rocchini, D., Chieffallo, L., Thouverai, E., D'Introno, R., Dagostin, F., Donini, E., Foody, G., Garnier, S., Mazzochini, G. G., Moudry, V., Rudis, B., Simova, P., Torresani, M., & Nowosad, J. (2024). Under the mantra: 'Make use of colorblind friendly graphs'. Environmetrics, 35(6), Article e2877. https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 22, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Aug 20, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-09
• Deposit Date: Jul 26, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 21, 2025
• Journal: Environmetrics
• Print ISSN: 1180-4009
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-095X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 6
• Article Number: e2877
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/env.2877
• Keywords: colors, colorblindness, R software, science dissemination, scientific graphs
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/37602944
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/env.2877
• Additional Information: Received: 2024-04-25; Accepted: 2024-07-22; Published: 2024-08-20