Just found ColorBrewer2 - a tool that helps select color schemes for map based data. The tool allows you to play with different criteria, then proposes a space of possible color combinations. Proactively filtering for color blindness, photocopy friendly and printer friendly is great. Adding projector friendly (no yellow please) would be nice. I'd love to see something like this for time series and other statistical data forms.
The old Color Brewer (http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer.html) tells you which schemes are projector friendly, but unfortunately doesn't let you filter by that. Also, if you use R, the RColorBrewer package is indispensable for graphics (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RColorBrewer/RColorBrewer.pdf).
Posted by: Kyle Foreman | January 04, 2011 at 11:17 PM