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Science graphic design guideline

Supporting guideline and check-list for designing a good science figure with purpose.

Supporting guideline for designing a science figure that has a clear purpose, is tailored to its audience and medium, is scientifically accurate and universally readable, effective and engaging, and reproducible and reusable. The guideline is available in multiple languages.

  • Multiple language versions (incl. German & Spanish)
  • Transparent background
  • Colour-blind friendly
  • Vector-graphic version
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Figure accuracy and accessibility guideline

A template of guidelines to creating accurate, accessible, and inclusive science figures to be directed at authors of scientific publishers.

A template of guidelines for creating accurate, accessible, and inclusive science figures to be directed at authors of scientific journals and conference organisers. The guideline aims to reduce the widespread use and reuse of unscientific colour maps, such as rainbow-types like ‘jet‘ and instead promote science-proof alternative colour maps, such as ‘batlow‘. The template was first developed for the diamond open-access journal Tektonika and refined by its community.

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  • Colour-vision deficiency friendly
  • Readable in black&white
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Scientific colour use reminders

A set of text template statements to effectively remind peers to improve inaccurate and/or inaccessible figures.

A set of text template statements to effectively remind peers, for example during peer-review, to improve inaccurate and/or inaccessible figures. The statements aim to reduce the widespread use and reuse of unscientific colour maps, such as rainbow-types like ‘jet‘, and instead promote science-proof alternative colour maps, such as ‘batlow‘.

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Colour palette and gradient types

Classification of colour maps into palette types and gradient types.

Colour maps are classified into different palette types (continuous; discrete; categorical) and gradient types (sequential; diverging; multi-sequential; cyclic). Only sequential colour-gradient types can be faithfully applied to categorical types of data in form of categorical colour palettes. Scientific colour maps of all types are available from www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps. A guideline on when to use which type is given on s-ink.org/colour-map-guideline.

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  • Dark version
  • Colour-vision deficiency friendly
  • Readable in black&white
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Colour map guideline

Guideline for choosing the right scientific colour map for any given dataset.

Guideline for choosing the right scientific colour map for any given dataset. For effective data representation, the nature of a given data set has to be matched by a suitable colour map gradient- and palette type, and colour combination; the flow chart provides clear instruction for when to choose which one of them. See all available colour map types on https://s-ink.org/colour-palette-and-gradient-types. All different types of scientific colour maps are available from www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps.

* Please not that the original version published in Nature Communications has a typo suggesting falsely to use dark colours for central values of diverging colour gradients, which has been corrected here (thanks to Lars-Henrik Snow).

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