Palatable Palettes: Five tips for creating and applying bespoke colour schemes

NHS-R Community Conference | Five tips for making good use of colours in your ggplots

Cara Thompson true
2022-11-17

In this talk, I cover five tips for making good use of colours in ggplots. There’s not much code to share other than what’s on the slides, so happy slide perusing!

TLDR? Here are my five tips:

Scroll down for a list of resources I recommend during the talk.

Recording

Slides

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Resources

Guidance

Useful tools for generating and checking colour palettes

Other talks of mine I pinched bits of code from

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Thompson (2022, Nov. 17). Building stories with data: Palatable Palettes: Five tips for creating and applying bespoke colour schemes. Retrieved from https://www.cararthompson.com/talks/nhsr2022-palatable-palettes/

BibTeX citation

@misc{thompson2022palatable,
  author = {Thompson, Cara},
  title = {Building stories with data: Palatable Palettes: Five tips for creating and applying bespoke colour schemes},
  url = {https://www.cararthompson.com/talks/nhsr2022-palatable-palettes/},
  year = {2022}
}