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by CobsterLock 1940 days ago
Off-topic: who is in charge of choosing colors for graphs? Being red-green colorblind, choosing blue and purple is makes it impossible for me to read the charts. I know its stylish, but every time i make a graph i choose very high contrast colors. Another point: is it just being color blind or do other people struggle in charts/maps that have shades of a color? like different shades of blue represent different rates of covid deaths across a map. just curious if anyone else struggles with this
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I am not colorblind, and the chosen colors for this graph are similar enough to make it difficult to read.

High-contrast helps the rest of us, too.

These are just the default colors for Datadog graphs, so I guess the answer to your question is Datadog.
Brewer colour schemes ftw.