Timeline for What’s the etiquette on using diagrams that need color to be understood?
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| Apr 5, 2018 at 9:19 | answer | added | Earthliŋ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | GMB | I really appreciate the answers so far. One point that I'm still interested in is the distinction between etiquette and best practice. That is, if I were to ignore the excellent advice in this thread (I won't), would people think this author handicapped themselves by bad use of color -- oh well, or will they think this author was rude and insensitive for implicitly excluding a fraction of the community with their choices? | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 14:29 | comment | added | GMB | @PabloH The paper is about graph theory, and the arguments essentially have to do with large sets of paths through graphs. Some of the proofs say "consider the following set of paths: ...," and these are accompanied with a diagram in which different paths are distinguished by color. There are more paths than I imagine could be distinguished by texture alone. That said, I do like the generality of the question - I think it's worth having answers in general as best possible. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:26 | comment | added | Pablo H | @GMB IMHO the answer changes depending on the purpose of color (ie, what information you intend to code with color). You wrote "diagrams" (as in commutative diagram?), instead of charts or graphs, where color is usually used to code values or categories. Could you give more details about what you intend to use color for? | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 0:01 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | You already received excellent answers, but as a colorblind person I'd very much prefer you did not use colors at all. (I do not have a particularly severe form of colorblindness but even so colored charts can be surprisingly confusing) | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 23:56 | answer | added | Omission in the top answer | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 16:13 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | There are several questions discussing similar topics on academia.se: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/34327, academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13616, academia.stackexchange.com/questions/95792. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 11:27 | history | edited | T.J. Crowder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 10:53 | answer | added | Sylphio | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 7:43 | answer | added | Wlod AA | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 4:13 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | colorbrewer2.org is a great resource for colour palettes | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | The printing issue seems more important to me - I often print papers to read them. More importantly, are you certain that the journal will print the diagrams in color? It would be odd if the officially printed version of the paper did not have the colors that the paper refers to. | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 21:37 | vote | accept | GMB | ||
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| Apr 1, 2018 at 18:59 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Apr 1, 2018 at 17:50 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 84 | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | Thomas Rot | When I used different colors in my thesis, I also made a point to change other characteristics as well, for example thickness, or if the line is dashed etc. | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 17:29 | history | asked | GMB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |