The cyan magenta blues
Discerning a different kind of blue in Data Visualizations.
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11 min readMay 2, 2023
Amazing as it might seem, the color Blue, as defined by its Hex code #0000FF, is rarely used in data visualization. I discovered this in my efforts to explore how Blue is produced in Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key Black (CMYK) printer color space. Colors that are a combination of Blue and Cyan are more frequently used and called…