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Day 1: Setting up a bespoke colour scheme 🎨

🤫 I'm going to let you in on a secret... I find picking colours really tricky! Thankfully, I've found few ways round that.

My top tip is to let others help you! But first, a broad principle...
When picking colours for story telling, I try to make the colours as intuitive as possible.

Here's the adventure I took the Palmer Penguins on in a recent talk involving the #GreatPenguinBakeOff. See if you can guess the details. (The next tweet should give you a few clues!)
It's not about making your plots into a guessing game. It's about reducing cognitive load by making it easy to remember what's what.

And this allows me to illustrate one way to let others help you: photos! All of the colours in the previous plots were taken from these photos. Photos used to pick the colours in the bar charts above. Alt
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