[rrd-users] Re: Good Colours to use on graphs?

Pavel Ruzicka pavouk at pavouk.org
Tue Mar 22 09:58:57 MET 2005


Hi,

> I'm struggling a bit with something so simple and stupid, but something
> that is integral to the whole idea... what colours to use?

I experimentally created colors which looks good for me. They are in contrast
and BW printer friendly. I use brighter values for + and darker for -.
If I need more than 8 colors, I use them again.

There is piece of my perl code with HEX RGB values:

        my @colorsin = (
                '30FC30',
                '3096FC',
                'FFC930',
                'FF3030',
                '30CC30',
                '3030CC',
                'FFFF00',
                'CC3030'
        );
        my @colorsout = (
                '00CC00',
                '0066CC',
                'FF9900',
                'CC0000',
                '009900',
                '000099',
                'CCCC00',
                '990000'
        );

Best regards,

Pavel Ruzicka

PS. You can use Color scheme generator for experimenting with colors:
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

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