Using Adobe Firefly to generate sequential color schemes

Exploring generative AI color sequencing.

In this writing, I explore the use of Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model, as a color suggestion tool for building sequential color data schemes for your data visualizations. I do this by prompting the trained AI model for color schemes and then evaluate the results. Adobe Firefly is currently in Beta and its features are freely available upon applying and being accepted to their Beta access program. I will walk through the technical process, explain the color theory at work, and how to apply the selected color scheme to my five-step process of colorizing a data visualization, which I have highlighted in previous UX Collective and Nightingale writings. In data visualization, sequential color schemes are designed for ordering numeric information where colors progress from low to high (or vice versa).

Let’s begin by exploring some general details about what currently exists with Adobe Firefly.

What is Adobe Firefly:

Adobe Firefly is a beta software collection of Generative Artificially Intelligent (AI) models for building artistic content. The online version can provide creative images from text commands that you provide, referred to as prompts. Adobe requires that you apply to be…