Text-based generative AI color sequencing. — Here, I explore how to use ChatGPT, a text-based generative AI model, as a color suggestion system for building sequential color schemes. I do this by prompting the trained AI model for color schemes and then evaluate the recommendations. Successful results are based on the specific text phrasing used…

Creating color divergence with generative AI. — In this writing, I explore the use of Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model, as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes for your data visualizations. Previously, I discussed how to use Adobe Firefly to find and select sequential color schemes that are designed for ordering numeric…

Exploring generative AI color sequencing. — In this writing, I explore the use of Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model, as a color suggestion tool for building sequential color data schemes for your data visualizations. I do this by prompting the trained AI model for color schemes and then evaluate the results. Adobe Firefly is…

Converting Viva Magenta’s Triad Color Harmony into a Three Class Qualitative Color Scheme. — In previous writings, I highlighted how to create sequential and diverging data color schemes with Viva Magenta, the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year (COY). Today, I explore how to create a Qualitative data color scheme starting with Viva Magenta’s triad color harmony. A Qualitative data color scheme uses distinct…

The Mysteries and Challenges of Using Yellow in Data Visualization — The traffic light is a common object of color in much of our everyday life, it also inadvertently depicts a key concept in color theory. In the Red Green Blue (RGB) display color space, adding Red and Green lights together produces a Yellow light. …

Discerning a different kind of blue in Data Visualizations. — Amazing as it might seem, the color Blue, as defined by its Hex code #0000FF, is rarely used in data visualization. I discovered this in my efforts to explore how Blue is produced in Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key Black (CMYK) printer color space. Colors that are a combination of…

The mysteries of red as a secondary color for printing digital media and data visualizations. — When most of us see or ponder the color Red, we rarely consider it to be a combination of Yellow and Magenta. Indeed, we might think of Red as one of the primaries in the Red Green Blue (RGB) display color space. Perhaps we consider it in terms of its…

Creating a Color Scheme with the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year and its Complement — In this writing, I discuss a method to create a diverging color scheme for data visualization using the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year. A diverging color scheme fuses two sequential color schemes, each with different hues, together with a shared neutral midpoint color. Here, I combine the 2023 Pantone…

Building a sequential color scheme with Pantone’s 2023 color of the year. — In this writing, I discuss how to build a single-hue sequential color scheme for data visualization with Pantone’s 2023 Color of the Year, Viva Magenta. …