Thread by @annemscheel

It's #petpeevefriday (aka #fingerwaggingfriday aka #desperatealliterationsfriday):
+++ PLEASE DON'T USE RED & GREEN AS PRIMARY CONTRAST IN YOUR FIGURES +++
~4-5% of the population is red-green blind. In other words, look at your followers and count to twenty. Stay with me 👇
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Recent* offenders:
1) pnas.org/content/early/…
2) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
--> Please point this out if you come across it as a reviewer!

* "recent" = recently discussed in my Twitter bubble
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Here's a bunch of resources to help you pick better colours and probably even prettify your plots along the way:

Tips for designing scientific figures for colour-blind readers:
somersault1824.com/tips-for-desig…
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Simulate how plots look for colour-blind readers:

https://twitter.com/patilindrajeets/status/992033060098101248

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Use Colorbrewer to make colour-blind people AND photocopiers happy:

https://twitter.com/lakens/status/884088195322916866

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Use the colour-blind-friendly cbPalette in ggplot:
cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Colors_…
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Use the viridis package for a very pretty and colour-blind-friendly palette in R:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/v…
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Use the colorspace package to brew your own palettes in R:

https://twitter.com/jaimiAgray/status/994392251206844416

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...or just have a serious amount of fun along using these ones* (h/t @EikoFried):
r-project.org/nosvn/pandoc/w…
*caution: not created for colour-blind-friendliness, but some/many of these may be suitable

Thanks for your attention. 9/9