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Designing a Color Graphics Page (Checklist) 
Designing a Color Graphics Page (Checklist) 
 
Labeling with Color 
Labeling with Color 
Grouping with Color 
Grouping with Color 
Color and Popout 
Color and Popout 
Creating Urgency Hierarchies 
Creating Urgency Hierarchies 
Creating Perceptual Layers 
Creating Perceptual Layers 
Designing with Luminance Contrast 
Designing with Luminance Contrast 
Luminance Contrast in Color Graphics 
Luminance Contrast in Color Graphics 
Choosing Background Colors 
Choosing Background Colors 
Last Resorts Outlining / Infills 
Last Resorts Outlining / Infills 
 
Color Design for Aerospace Graphics 
Color Design for Aerospace Graphics 
Design of Cockpit Graphics (Example) 
Design of Cockpit Graphics (Example) 
Design of Air Traffic Management Graphics (Example) 
Design of Air Traffic Management Graphics (Example) 
Colors in Aviation Charts and Maps 
Colors in Aviation Charts and Maps 
 
Introduction to Color Guidelines and Standards 
Introduction to Color Guidelines and Standards 
Hierarchy of Color Usage Guidelines 
Hierarchy of Color Usage Guidelines 
Guidelines for Color Discrimination and Identification 
Guidelines for Color Discrimination and Identification 
Luminance Contrast Color Guidelines 
Luminance Contrast Color Guidelines 
Other Color Design Guidelines 
Other Color Design Guidelines 
Color Guidelines Bibliography 
Color Guidelines Bibliography 
 
Applied Color Science 
Applied Color Science 
Luminance Contrast 
Luminance Contrast 
Luminance and Chromaticity 
Luminance and Chromaticity 
Color Discrimination and Identification 
Color Discrimination and Identification 
Legibility 
Legibility 
Designing with Blue 
Designing with Blue 
Individual Differences in Color Vision 
Individual Differences in Color Vision 
Masking by Patterns 
Masking by Patterns 
Blinking, Flashing, and Temporal Response 
Blinking, Flashing, and Temporal Response 
Simultaneous and Successive Contrast 
Simultaneous and Successive Contrast 
Display Hardware & Software 
Display Hardware & Software 
Reflected Light 
Reflected Light 
 
References 
References 
Bibliography 
Bibliography 
Links and External Resources 
Links and External Resources 
Site Map 
Site Map 
About This Site 
About This Site 
 



Use the category links below to navigate this web site. All site pages can also
be accessed with the site map.

Design Process Color Graphics Topics Color Guidelines Aerospace
Color Science Utilities Site Map

 
USING COLOR IN INFORMATION DISPLAY GRAPHICS

* Please note, there is currently no support for this website. It remains
available for public access for informational/historical purposes only. *


This site provides a guide to color design for information visualization. It
includes

> - a step by step process for designing color usage in complicated interface
> graphics
> - two detailed examples of design of aerospace displays
> - a new color selection tool to support the recommended design process
> - information about color usage standards and guidelines
> - information about applied color science, and
> - reference resources.

Aerospace graphics get special attention, but much of the information should be
useful for other color graphics as well.

The site is intended to help designers who are not color experts find usable
color designs,
BUT, keep in mind that even with the best possible recipe there's no substitute
for a properly trained, experienced chef!!!
Depending on the complexity of your project, you may also need review or design
by a trained and experienced color expert.



Ordered Topics

Designing a Color Graphics Page: Step-by-step guidance for effective use of
color in information graphics.
Color Design for Aerospace Applications: Detailed case-studies from aerospace
graphics illustrate challenges of color design for safety-critical information
interfaces.
Hierarchy of Color Usage Guidelines: A hierarchy of guidelines that begins with
high-level cognitive performance requirements and proceeds down to more specific
graphic requirements and advice. At the appropriate places there are links to
supporting information elsewhere on the site.

Browse In Any Order

Color Guidelines, Standards, Requirements: Discusses conventional approaches to
control of quality of color usage, problems presented by technology advances,
and opportunities for new approaches.
Applied Color Vision: A simplified overview of applied and basic vision research
concepts and pointers to more detailed information.

Interactive Design Tool

Color Selection Tool: Interactive tool gives a preview of user-selected symbol
and background colors. Colors are selected from perceptually organized palettes
of the display's available colors.
Color Tool Examples: Some examples of things you can do using the Color
Selection Tool.

Using This Site

Your Equipment. As with other websites, the appearance of the colors on your
display may differ from our intent if your equipment is different from our
assumptions. Our server is sending your browser graphics from one of two sets,
depending on what it thinks your computer is. The sets have been computed to
display accurately on our two idealized "standard" displays. The standard
displays are typical Macintosh OS systems and typical Windows systems, both with
24-bit (or more) color and 6500K white alignment. If you are using something
else and the colors seem too dark or too light, you might want to look at the
site on one of these targeted systems.

More detailed information about color accuracy of the displayed graphics and
tools for improving it are available here.

Sponsored by: NASA Human Measures and Performance Project



About This Site

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