Why Your Data Visualizations Should Be Colorblind-Friendly

Especially if You Are Trying to Convince Men

Leonie Monigatti
Towards Data Science
7 min readJul 12, 2022

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One the top you can see a color palette: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Below that you can see the same color palette with simulated red-green color blindness: brownish-yellow, brownish-yellow, yellow, yellow, blue, blue
Image by the author.

Has this happened to you before? You thought your data analysis report was convincing. The data supported your arguments and you polished your data visualizations. But the person you needed to convince to achieve your goal was just like “meh”.

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