I will use the freely available Viz Palette tool to examine how various types of information visualizations might look with the new Very Peri theme. Let’s use this five-stage process to build a Very Peri sequential scheme for data visualization, starting with Adobe Color. Notice that my choice for colorizing Step #3 in the ring above is in the same family of Very Peri colors. Apply color scheme to data visualization.Check and revise due to color deficiency, contrasts, or any pre-existing conditions.Select color rule, color harmony per criteria of your data.Establish data classes for visualization and key color for visualization.The ring diagram of this process is shown above.

In a previous Nightingale writing, I defined a five stage process for colorizing a data visualization. My diagram of “The Process of Colorizing a Data Visualization.” Synchromism is meant to be defined as “with color” as Symphony means “with sound.” The artists also defined scales and color harmony in terms of this concept. In the rich history of color theory, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell defined a concept called “ Synchromism” based on the notion that color has similarities to music. Similar to concepts in music, these harmonies are based around color cords on the color wheel that help to provide common guidelines for how color hues will work together. Some color harmony basicsĪs noted in a prior writing, color harmony is the process of choosing colors on a color wheel that work well together in the composition of an image. As a result, in my visualization practice, I have found it prudent to build and keep in inventory color schemes that correspond to the designated Pantone Color of the Year. Pantone’s Color of the Year can influence the development of products and consumer decisions in areas like graphic design, product packaging, fashion, industrial design and home furnishings. The color for a given year is selected by a secret panel after giving consideration to color trend analyses that span the entertainment industry, all areas of design, fine art shows and collections, social media, new technologies, emerging materials and textures as well as lifestyles and socio-economic conditions. Surprisingly, for 2022, the Institute broke with this tradition and defined a new color, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, as their Pantone Color of the Year. Starting in 2000, the Pantone Color Institute began defining a “ Color of the Year” from the existing inventory of PMS and FHI colors. I highlighted this journey from digital to hard copy in my Nightingale writing on “Getting Physical with Perceptual Uniform Color Schemes: The Journey from HCL to CMYK and Pantone. When Pantone PMS inks are applied to a physical color reproduction process, it is frequently possible to accurately match the colors from your digital data visualization to hard copy output. FHI is used in a wide range of other industries including fashion, cosmetics, fabric, plastics, and paints. PMS is used primarily in graphics for printing, packaging, and digital media. The Pantone company produces the Pantone Matching System (PMS) and the Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors (FHI) System, proprietary color spaces. Image adapted from Wikipedia’s Pantone Color of the Year writing. Visual Summary of the Pantone Color of the Year for 2000 – 2021.

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