Lovely map and service but colours on the legend are really sub-optimal

afrith / election-map-frontend

Interactive map of South African election results visualised in various ways

https://elections.adrianfrith.com/

MIT License

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Lovely map and service but colours on the legend are really sub-optimal #43

Open ricky-rockstar opened 3 months ago

ricky-rockstar commented 3 months ago

I am colour blind and the chosen colours make it crazy hard to read. It would be great if you could make the colours more "primary" in nature. and particularly for the EFF - it's crazy close to the DA. Can you not make them yellow.

(or even better allow users to configure their own colour choice if they want to change the defaults)

afrith commented 3 months ago

Hi Ricky. Unfortunately it's really difficult to find five colour ranges to represent five parties in a way that works for colour-blind users. In the "Colour scheme" dropdown you will find a "Colour blind friendly" option which just shows ANC / DA / Other using red, blue and grey, which I am informed should be easier to distinguish.

paulmwatson commented 1 month ago

Would different fill patterns, not just colours, help?