ColorBrewer in JFreeChart ?

[chidochipotle]

Hi:

Found JFreeChart yesterday an love it so far My only observation would be about the colors
Java's default colors are not user friendly, they can be "hard to see", or in a more technical language they are isoluminant saturated garish neon colors

(Sorry for the following links had to take the dots and achtetepe part since I am a new user [EDIT by RichardWest: I added the urls for simplicity])

We had the same problem in netlogo:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
and we fixed it using ColorSchemes
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/~dkor/Code/ ... index.html
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/~dkor/extensions/palette/
from ColorBrewer:
http://www.colorbrewer.org/

You can get the colors in some java format from my webpage
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/~dkor/Code/ ... getSrc.zip

or directly in a great excel sheet from Dr's Brewer page:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/Color ... dates.html

Here is a paper about it if you want to have fun reading:
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/~harrower ... er2003.pdf
Lot's more where that came from:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=colorbrewer

Daniel

[RichardWest]

Hope you don't mind, but I edited your post to put in all the URLs. It was too painful trying to copy them into my address bar. All the links are valid.

[dlucas]

Great post! Thanks for the info

I spent about 3 hours tonight incorporating some of Dr. Brewer's color schemes into my charts.

[david.gilbert]

Yes, thanks for the links, they are really helpful.