{"id":148,"date":"2024-09-02T22:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T05:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-06-21T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:28:08","slug":"choosing-colors-for-scientific-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/choosing-colors-for-scientific-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"choosing colors for scientific figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently gave a short presentation on colors that was a lot of fun to put together (especially the artwork). High-level, it is meant to help scientists choose colors for their figures. More specifically, it covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What are primary colors?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common color spaces used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common pitfalls that arise from working in RGB\/CMYK\/HSB color spaces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to maximize contrast (in both brightness and color).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Useful tools, including a color picker and a contrast checker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A pdf copy of the slide deck can be downloaded below for those curious \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file has-link-color wp-elements-1bd8ddfa44d0fc1dc5f71aaf69a9d9c7\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9af0c293-8a65-4485-8eba-13ab230dfc6a\" href=\"http:\/\/csholgate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Colors.pdf\">Colors<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/csholgate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Colors.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9af0c293-8a65-4485-8eba-13ab230dfc6a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave a short presentation on colors that was a lot of fun to put together (especially the artwork). High-level, it is meant to help scientists choose colors for their figures. More specifically, it covers: A pdf copy of the slide deck can be downloaded below for those curious \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csholgate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}