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Update color palette to be more colorblind friendly #5

Open lauralindzey opened 1 month ago

lauralindzey commented 1 month ago

I plan to add a 4th color to our symbology to represent "downloaded", and as part of that I want to review the symbology for whether it works people with various forms of colorblindness.

Our current symbology is:

Using the visualizer from davidmathlogic.com/colorblind:

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Not terrible, but choosing a 4th color was hard, and I would like "unavailable" to be more perceptually different.

New proposal: Using colors from the Okabe + Ito palette

Again, using the same visualizer

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Closing this issue will require updating the script that generates the .qlr file.

lauralindzey commented 2 weeks ago

Now that the plugin is modifying the layer styling, it might make more sense to make this a configuration option, rather than choosing a fixed set of colors. I think this would be a straightforward change.