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Peter Smith
Peter Smith
12,347 Points
Posted by Peter Smith
Peter Smith
12,347 Points

Could you review my color choices and make suggestions?

Hey all,

I'm working on a project for exploring the personality types of redditors and subreddits on reddit.

And I've got two bar charts with colors I'm unsure about. I used rainbow colors (ROY G BIV) as placeholders, however I'm unsure about what to do for the final color scheme.

The graphs are here and here.

Your feedback means a lot to me and any specific recommendations would be a big help.

Edit: The site's design is currently only optimized for mobile viewing.

2 Answers

jamescool
jamescool
44,592 Points

Hi Peter. Have you heard of Adobe Kuler? https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ This is a really quick way to quickly generate some neat color schemes.

One thing I would suggest regarding the colors on your webpage is that the label "INFP" gets lost in the presence of a blue background; it's very hard to see black text on a royal blue background. My suggestion is this: use Adobe Kuler to generate a five colors that accomplish these two things: 1) as a group, they are coherent ... 2) one single color of text is readable on every background color.

*Try modifying the 'color rule' on the left side of the screen..."compound" might be a good choice for this application.

Peter Smith
Peter Smith
12,347 Points
Peter Smith
Peter Smith
12,347 Points

Great James!

I used the tool and bookmarked it . For other reasons I chose to remove the graph from the subreddit pages but here is the result on the redditor page

Tristan Gaebler
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 Points
Tristan Gaebler
Tristan Gaebler
6,204 Points

I would suggest putting the numbers on the pi chart off to the side.