The choice of color to represent information in scientific images is a fundamental part of communicating findings. However, a number of color palettes that are widely used to display critical ...

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Scott Harden can’t see rainbows. “When I look at a rainbow, I see two or maybe three colours, and they’re not evenly spaced out,” he says. So when scientific figures use a rainbow colour map, he finds ...

Skilfully crafted scientific illustrations, figures and graphs can make a paper more accessible to members of the public and the research community. When supported by the right tools, these visual ...