My Color Palette

Oct 24, 2021 1 min read

Ok, this is a fun post. I am choosing… my color palette!

I have decided to unify all the color palettes I have on my website, slides, graphs, etc… into a unique universal color palette.

Main Color

First of all, I have to choose my main color.

Here are some shades of it.

Now I will build a couple of colors palettes based on it.

The first one, is red oriented.

Second one, is green oriented.

Color Sequence

Now I need a high contrast scheme for graphs. I add one color at the time to check that contrast is always maximized.

https://coolors.co/003f5c-ff6e54-f9f871-2db88b-955196)

A milder version of the same palette is:

https://coolors.co/00798c-d1495b-edae49-52a369-756ab2)

I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich. Now I work at the intersection of economics, data science and statistics. I regularly write about causal inference on Medium.