UI & Data Visualization

Color scale

A sequence of interrelated colors. Continuous color scales are visualized as a gradient.

Gradient of color from yellow to orange to dark purple

Types of color scales include:

Sources:

  1. John Gage (1999). Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism. University of California Press. Pages 17, 19
  2. Lisa Charlotte Muth. Which color scale to use when visualizing data. Datawrapper. https://blog.datawrapper.de/which-color-scale-to-use-in-data-vis/
  3. Color for Data Visualization. Adobe Spectrum. https://spectrum.adobe.com/page/color-for-data-visualization/