Comments on: Better Color Palettes for Your Excel Charts [Video Tutorial] http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/ Effective Charts and Dashboards for Excel users Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ashish http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/#comment-8993 Ashish Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:24:46 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-8993 I wants to plot dot/scatter chart where i want to use light to dark colour shade to represent different frequencies of occurences of certain combinations. How to apply colour scheme for different sets of values/series like we do in conditional formatting? I wants to plot dot/scatter chart where i want to use light to dark colour shade to represent different frequencies of occurences of certain combinations. How to apply colour scheme for different sets of values/series like we do in conditional formatting?

]]> By: Ross http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/#comment-1305 Ross Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:31:48 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-1305 Please take a look at this addin too: http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2009/02/21/working-with-colours-in-excel-mie-colour-manager/ Thanks Ross Please take a look at this addin too:
http://www.blog.methodsinexcel.co.uk/2009/02/21/working-with-colours-in-excel-mie-colour-manager/
Thanks
Ross

]]> By: Scott Ziolko http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/#comment-1304 Scott Ziolko Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:01:37 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-1304 Jorge, Best source I can recommend is Cynthia Brewer's work with ColorBrewer (http://colorbrewer2.org/). You can get sequential, diverging, and qualitative color schemes and can make sure they are colorblind safe, print and/or photocopy friendly. It can be hard to meet all of those requirements in some charts, but best practices sometimes take a little bit of effort. For R users you can pull in all of the color scales and work with them directly in your programs/scripts. Cheers, Scott Jorge,

Best source I can recommend is Cynthia Brewer’s work with ColorBrewer (http://colorbrewer2.org/). You can get sequential, diverging, and qualitative color schemes and can make sure they are colorblind safe, print and/or photocopy friendly. It can be hard to meet all of those requirements in some charts, but best practices sometimes take a little bit of effort.

For R users you can pull in all of the color scales and work with them directly in your programs/scripts.

Cheers,
Scott

]]> By: Bernard Lebelle http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/#comment-1303 Bernard Lebelle Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:46:58 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-1303 Jorge, thanks for this tutorial. I was just trying to figure out how to easily convert the online palette generator output into proper RGB value ! Great work. Jorge, thanks for this tutorial. I was just trying to figure out how to easily convert the online palette generator output into proper RGB value ! Great work.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/better-color-palettes-for-your-excel-charts-video-tutorial/#comment-1302 Kevin Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:49:55 +0000 http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-1302 Great post. I'm going to use this tomorrow at work. Great post. I’m going to use this tomorrow at work.

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