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I was skeptical about using symbols instead of colors for charts, but I just switched my whole team over
For years I thought the whole 'add patterns and icons' thing was overkill. Figured color blind folks could just ask someone or memorize the legend. Then last month I watched a guy on my crew spend 5 minutes trying to match a green line on a graph to the legend because it all looked brown to him. I redesigned one of our safety reports with circles for one data set and triangles for another, no color at all. Showed it to three different guys who have trouble with reds and greens and they all said it was way easier to read. Now I'm redoing all our job site charts. Anybody got a good set of free icons they use for this kind of thing?
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blaker754d ago
Honestly that's the kind of fix that makes you wonder why nobody standardized it across the whole industry years ago. The wild part is these patterns actually work better in print and on projectors where colors get washed out too.
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