Are you using Color Blind-Safe Palettes with Power BI/Tableau?

Paul Simpson
Grow The Unicorn
Published in
4 min readMar 2, 2022

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The Problem:

If I were to ask in a poll, “How many of you have red-green colorblindness (the most common type)”, I can already guess that the answers would show 8% of males and 0.5% of females (of Northern European descent, at least) have red-green color blindness. There is also a much rarer type, called blue-yellow color blindness. Read more at VisionCenter.org about the types of color blindness and testing options. This chart shows what people with normal vision see, and what those with different types of color…

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Paul Simpson
Grow The Unicorn

Paul is a data scientist, web developer, musician/songwriter, and adjunct professor of master’s Data Analytics courses. linkedin.com/in/paulsimpson4datascience/