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Usage of Colors — Line Charts
Part 6c of Storytelling with Tableau by Dr. Alvin Ang
3 min readApr 9, 2025
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- Above is a good line chart.
- Proper use of colour: Purple highlights the peak year (2017–2018) and corresponds to the 34.6M.
- The rest are unimportant; thus they are coloured brown altogether.
- The line drawn at 36 weeks show that pandemic all ends there.
CHOOSE PROPER CONTRAST IF COMPARING LINES
- Above is a good line chart.
- The highlighted blue line overpowers the grey line suggesting people to buy rather than rent.
- The word “Buying a Condo” is highlighted…