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ALT A drawing of the "Null Island Buoy" on a tombstone floating in the ocean. The text on the tombstone says "R. I. P. Null Island Buoy 1998-2021"
ALT Screenshot of the article showing one piece of advice: "Keep your color key always close by". The illustration shows an article in which only the first of three data visualization has a color key, which is less ideal than giving all three visualizations a color key.
ALT Screenshot of the article. The text talks states: "When you color annotation text to refer to a category of the same color, the contrast between text color and background color should be high enough for reading. Unfortunately, bright colors that work fairly well for a bar in a bar chart become illegible as thin letters. One small trick is to make the text color a bit darker than the category color." An example is shown from the Economist, where the label is darker than the line.
ALT Screenshot of the article, sharing a piece of advice: "Reuse your colors in tooltips". The illustration shows a scatter plot with an open tooltip on a red bubble in which the color red is repeated.
ALT Screenshot of the article, sharing the advice "Reuse your colors in text around your visualization". An illustration shows a classical color key, vs bringin the color key in the title, vs showing the color key int he article surrounding the visualization.
