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I am looking for five different colours/fill styles for the bars in a TikZ chart. The bars are quite narrow. I want them to be distinctive when viewed onscreen or printed in colour, but also distinctive if the same PDF file gets printed in black and white.

Can anyone recommend a good set of colour definitions? Or some other way of filling the bars to make them distinctive in both scenarios? A bonus (non-essential) would be if colour-blind people could also tell them apart easily.

To clarify, I do not want to produce a greyscale PDF file, or generate a separate output for black and white printing, as I have seen in some other answers. Thanks!

color printing

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I am looking for five different colours/fill styles for the bars in a TikZ chart. The bars are quite narrow. I want them to be distinctive when viewed onscreen or printed in colour, but also distinctive if the same PDF file gets printed in black and white.

Can anyone recommend a good set of colour definitions? Or some other way of filling the bars to make them distinctive in both scenarios? A bonus (non-essential) would be if colour-blind people could also tell them apart easily.

To clarify, I do not want to produce a greyscale PDF file, or generate a separate output for black and white printing, as I have seen in some other answers. Thanks!

color printing

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asked 20 hours ago

JRIJRI

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  Do you mind getting 6 colors instead? graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/80522/27774
  
  – Symbol 1
  19 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I am looking for five different colours/fill styles for the bars in a TikZ chart. The bars are quite narrow. I want them to be distinctive when viewed onscreen or printed in colour, but also distinctive if the same PDF file gets printed in black and white.

Can anyone recommend a good set of colour definitions? Or some other way of filling the bars to make them distinctive in both scenarios? A bonus (non-essential) would be if colour-blind people could also tell them apart easily.

To clarify, I do not want to produce a greyscale PDF file, or generate a separate output for black and white printing, as I have seen in some other answers. Thanks!

color printing

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I would suggest using a basic color that you can then mix with different amounts of white and black to create five different shades of this color. In the following example, I have used blue as the base color, but the same can also be done using other colors (such as red and green, as shown in the image below).

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



  begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        xmin=0,

        xmax=6,

        xtick={1,2,3,4,5},

        ytick={0,5},

        ymin=0,

        ymax=5,

        every axis plot/.append style={

          ybar,

          bar width=10pt,

          bar shift=0pt,

          fill

        }

      ]

      addplot[blue!15!white]coordinates {(1,5)};

      addplot[blue!40!white]coordinates{(2,5)};

      addplot[blue]coordinates{(3,5)};

      addplot[blue!60!black]coordinates{(4,5)};

      addplot[blue!15!black]coordinates{(5,5)};

    end{axis}

  end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

The same bar charts converted to grayscale are shown next to the coresponding colored chart in the following image:

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I would suggest using a basic color that you can then mix with different amounts of white and black to create five different shades of this color. In the following example, I have used blue as the base color, but the same can also be done using other colors (such as red and green, as shown in the image below).

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



  begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        xmin=0,

        xmax=6,

        xtick={1,2,3,4,5},

        ytick={0,5},

        ymin=0,

        ymax=5,

        every axis plot/.append style={

          ybar,

          bar width=10pt,

          bar shift=0pt,

          fill

        }

      ]

      addplot[blue!15!white]coordinates {(1,5)};

      addplot[blue!40!white]coordinates{(2,5)};

      addplot[blue]coordinates{(3,5)};

      addplot[blue!60!black]coordinates{(4,5)};

      addplot[blue!15!black]coordinates{(5,5)};

    end{axis}

  end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

The same bar charts converted to grayscale are shown next to the coresponding colored chart in the following image:

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2

I would suggest using a basic color that you can then mix with different amounts of white and black to create five different shades of this color. In the following example, I have used blue as the base color, but the same can also be done using other colors (such as red and green, as shown in the image below).

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



  begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        xmin=0,

        xmax=6,

        xtick={1,2,3,4,5},

        ytick={0,5},

        ymin=0,

        ymax=5,

        every axis plot/.append style={

          ybar,

          bar width=10pt,

          bar shift=0pt,

          fill

        }

      ]

      addplot[blue!15!white]coordinates {(1,5)};

      addplot[blue!40!white]coordinates{(2,5)};

      addplot[blue]coordinates{(3,5)};

      addplot[blue!60!black]coordinates{(4,5)};

      addplot[blue!15!black]coordinates{(5,5)};

    end{axis}

  end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

The same bar charts converted to grayscale are shown next to the coresponding colored chart in the following image:

share|improve this answer

answered 18 hours ago

leandriisleandriis

9,3351530

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I would suggest using a basic color that you can then mix with different amounts of white and black to create five different shades of this color. In the following example, I have used blue as the base color, but the same can also be done using other colors (such as red and green, as shown in the image below).

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



  begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        xmin=0,

        xmax=6,

        xtick={1,2,3,4,5},

        ytick={0,5},

        ymin=0,

        ymax=5,

        every axis plot/.append style={

          ybar,

          bar width=10pt,

          bar shift=0pt,

          fill

        }

      ]

      addplot[blue!15!white]coordinates {(1,5)};

      addplot[blue!40!white]coordinates{(2,5)};

      addplot[blue]coordinates{(3,5)};

      addplot[blue!60!black]coordinates{(4,5)};

      addplot[blue!15!black]coordinates{(5,5)};

    end{axis}

  end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

The same bar charts converted to grayscale are shown next to the coresponding colored chart in the following image:

share|improve this answer

answered 18 hours ago

leandriisleandriis

9,3351530

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

begin{document}



  begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        xmin=0,

        xmax=6,

        xtick={1,2,3,4,5},

        ytick={0,5},

        ymin=0,

        ymax=5,

        every axis plot/.append style={

          ybar,

          bar width=10pt,

          bar shift=0pt,

          fill

        }

      ]

      addplot[blue!15!white]coordinates {(1,5)};

      addplot[blue!40!white]coordinates{(2,5)};

      addplot[blue]coordinates{(3,5)};

      addplot[blue!60!black]coordinates{(4,5)};

      addplot[blue!15!black]coordinates{(5,5)};

    end{axis}

  end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

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answered 18 hours ago

leandriisleandriis

9,3351530

answered 18 hours ago

leandriisleandriis

9,3351530

answered 18 hours ago

leandriisleandriis

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