Open olehermanse opened 6 years ago
@PrebenAas @evestera Can one of you take a look at this?
For reference, this shows our current 6 point scale colors: https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/livet-rundt-studiene/organisasjoner/fui/kursevaluering/H2016/INF1000.html
Something like this, @olehermanse ? Will convert to code if accepted. Color Scale Suggestions.pdf
We should perhaps consider a different scale than green to red (or adjust the charts in some other way), given how common red-green colorblindness is.
Yes, I was thinking about something like that as well. I justified it this time that we have explanation on all boxes/individual scale elements. I think, however, it is the best if we could adjust the colors to improve the readability in regards of colorblindness.
@PrebenAas Why do you have 8 colors in the 9 point scale?
@olehermanse sorry, mistake! I suggest a color palette similar to this then, going from dark to bright colors: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colorblind/img/colorblindness.palettes.simple.png
@Berstad @PrebenAas wrt color blindness, a higher contrast scale would be better, i.e. have it go brighter green -> medium yellow -> darker red, or darker green -> brighter yellow -> darker red. The biggest problem I see is the orange-y yellowy shades in the middle.
@olehermanse I don't think the colors green and red are good at all if we were to fully facilitate for color blindness. Some people cannot separate green from red at all.
@PrebenAas But they can separate bright from dark. Unless someone implements a color blind mode button, I don't think it makes sense to optimize for severe color blindness, by adopting a scale where each color is seemingly random, like the one you linked.
Edit: Blue to red, or blue to orange is another option
@PrebenAas @olehermanse It seems like a blue to red color scale could be a good compromise, something like this: https://stablekernel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/basicGradient-054950-edited-1030x360.png It seems like that would sort-of cover most forms of color-blindness (the other forms seem to be extremely rare.) I also found this which is probably better: https://github.com/nesanders/colorblind-colormap. A color blind mode might be a good idea for the future.
@PrebenAas Can you make an executive decision and provide hex colors for at least 7 and 9 scales? Optionally redo the old ones as well (5 and 6)
Will do asap @olehermanse
Added a commit: #85
Can someone make a scale of colors (hex) from green (good) to red (bad) with 7 and 9 points, for our new questions?
I added some temporary ones in #74 :