No traffic-light colors, please!
Being dogmatic is still my nature. And I continue to hate traffic-light colors. However, I do like the traffic-light elements of Summize. They display product ratings with multi-color bars. In the example 35 products associated with Flipper more often receive a top rating than products which contain the brightest name in the universe.
Even better: the grey-scale variant and sparklines. Sparklines visualize the number of ratings per month. The color represents the mean of all ratings for a month. Distinguishing different values is much easier with the grey-scale variant.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Bella
You restricted your dogmatic nature to traffic-lights colors. That’s an improvement vis‑à-vis your previous post. But don’t forget that, for very small areas, like in column sparklines, you need more saturated colors than in larger areas, where you can use softer, pastel colors (of course, there will always be exceptions to any single rule).