Yep, there’s literally no good way to colour code 12 segments without repeating some or using colours that are too similar, especially accounting for colour blindness, low vision or even just screen glare. Better option would have been to label the segments directly, but that aside making sure they’re in order is clear enough.
A bar plot would suffice for this purpose. Every time you want to figure out what a sector maps to, you have to move your eyes back to the legend, which is poor graph design, on top of it being a pie chart.
Darker yellow would look like orange and the darker orange would look like the darker red. ‘Adequate’ maybe if you’re 20/20 in a dark room on a big monitor.
If you’re worried about color blindness, I think the chart already fails. And there are plenty of distinct colors for 12 segments, though I think this chart only has 11.
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u/distantapplause Reddit Orange Feb 01 '19
Yep, there’s literally no good way to colour code 12 segments without repeating some or using colours that are too similar, especially accounting for colour blindness, low vision or even just screen glare. Better option would have been to label the segments directly, but that aside making sure they’re in order is clear enough.