Color scale

Illustrations from the 19th-century physics text books of Amédée Guillemin.

In celebration of the incredible extension of FF Good we created a A1 sized colour scale poster using four Pantone colours (Pantone Violet, Pantone Green, Pantone Orange 021 and Pantone 806) displaying all 96 styles. The design is a nod to Erik van Blokla…

I created these poster designs over the summer. They are free to download and print for educational purposes. The posters have been created in a large format but can be printed at any size. I created these for my own classrooms where I teach video production, graphic design, web design and digital photography. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the download link... if you repost please attribute credit. Typography Poster: Color Theory Poster A: Color Theory Poster B: Elements of…

Value study

by Christopher Hutchinson “Postcolonial Thoughts: Thoughts on Pedagogy of the Visual Artist Continued (Color)” is a followup to “Postcolonial Thoughts: Thoughts on Pedagogy of the…

Another hard-to-find, but really fascinating book. The author guides one step by step in a process of identifying favorite color palettes. The book has a definite Japanese feel, and once in a while you’ll run into a word used in a way you wouldn’t have expected (I would guess because it’s been translated), but overall […]

Effectively using color means your graphs clearly communicate your data. This post shows how. We summarize and apply visualization research to real-world examples. You can make graphs like these with Plotly’s web app, or APIs for Python, MATLAB, and R. For users who want to securely share graphs and data within a team, or create interactive dashboards, contact us about Plotly on-premise. In other Plotly news: We’ve released maps for our Python API. We’ve released a free version of our…

Before we start to look at this week’s Technique Tuesday topic of Tonalism, we’re going to start with a mini discussion of two basics that are important to understand when talking about…