Re: [matplotlib-devel] release strategy and the color revolution

[Michael W. <mw...@st...>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> Does anyone have a suggestion for a colorblind-friendly cycle?  Maybe
> omit the green and tack a gray on the end?  I haven't checked, so I
> don't know if this would work well.
>

Here are two palettes that are optimized for colorblindness:
http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Colors_%28ggplot2%29/#a-colorblind-friendly-palette

Seaborn has a `colorblind` palette that is somewhere between these colors
and the standard matplotlib/seaborn set. It's intended to be a little
better than deep (which actually isn't too bad in terms of red vs green),
but it's not been extensively tested or optimized.


> It is common to have plots with two curves, and the present blue, green
> pair is not very high-contrast; having the first two colors be blue and
> red would be better, I think.
>

+1