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Color Naming & Identification

Cross cultural studies in color identification and naming yielded a common set of eleven colors that are listed in the leftmost column. In developing a set of colors for use in color-coding displays, Colin Ware added the color, cyan. The twelve colors shown below represent widely accepted and agreed upon categories and are also reasonable separated in CIE color space. (Ware, Colin (2000) Information Visualization, Perception for Design, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman.)

  • Black
  • White
  • Red
  • Green
  • Yellow
  • Blue
  • Brown
  • Purple
  • Pink
  • Orange
  • Pink
  • Gray

12 Colors for Coding Displays

Colors from Set 1 should be used before colors from Set 2.

(Adapted from Colin Ware's web-posted lecture slides, Data Visualization Lab, University of New Hamphsire.)
 
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