A complementary color scheme inspired by color deficiency

Theresa-Marie Rhyne
UX Collective
Published in
10 min readMar 15, 2022

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Flow chart of the process creating a complementary color scheme inspired by color deficiency.

In this writing, I discuss how color deficiency simulations can inspire fresh color schemes for your data visualizations and graphic designs. This situation happened to me while I was building a diverging color scheme with the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year, Very Peri. After I created and applied a diverging color scheme to an area chart visualization, I performed color deficiency tests. The…

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne is a color expert. Her book on “Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization” was published by CRC Press in 2016.