• N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Poor choice of colours: distinguishing between the orange of 2025 and the red of 2040 is very hard, especially considering most people will read this on a small phone screen.

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      3 months ago

      I didn’t even see 2040 at first. I was shocked. I thought Mex was really on the 2025 list.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t want to talk down your issue, but on my 5" screen they’re easily differentiable. Which colours would be better? Something like a colour gradient in say green with a different projection?

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        3 months ago

        I guess depending on size and colour rendition of displays it can be easier / harder, but overall I’d still say it’s a poor choice.

        A choice of different colours is OK, but specifically those 2 are pretty hard to distinguish. Simply changing one of them to black, which looks like no other colour used in the map, would be much better.

        I don’t think a gradient works for colouring a map like this: we can distinguish gradient colours when they are next to each other, but if 2 countries far away have adjacent values the colours would probably be too similar to tell the difference.