Tools

Other Visualization Resource Lists

• Data Visualization Resources: Matt Brehmer’s comprehensive list of useful visualization resources
• Visualization tools: gallery of software and tools to create visualizations

Chart types

Plotting in Excel

• Stephanie Evergreen

Color

• ColorBrewer: Cynthia Brewer’s color palettes for sequential, diverging, and qualitative data. When in doubt, use Color Brewer.
• Adobe Color: Adobe site for creating color palettes
• Color palette analyzer: Evaluate color palettes based on how easy they are to name
• Color palette examples
• Matplotlib color schemes: Explanation of how Matplotlib, Python’s visualization function, created color schemes

Fonts and icons

• Typography: explanation of key terms about fonts and general good practices
• Humanitarian icons: UN-OCHA free icons for humanitarian symbols
• Free vector graphics