📊 This paper by Crameri et al. from 2020 shows why #color choice in figures matters.

Rainbow 🌈 and red–green colormaps 🛑❇️ can distort gradients, create artificial boundaries, and exclude readers with color-vision deficiency. They quantify the visual error and argue for perceptually uniform, #CVD-friendly scientific colormaps instead.

📄 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-191

#DataVisualization #OpenScience #ColorVision #DataScience

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@FabMusacchio I always like to link this when explaining why not to use jet / rainbow palettes youtu.be/xAoljeRJ3lU?si=m4hWHJ

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