Viva Magenta: diverging with waterfall

Creating a Color Scheme with the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year and its Complement

Theresa-Marie Rhyne
UX Collective
Published in
11 min readMar 2, 2023

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Introductory image for the writing on “Viva Magenta Diverging with Waterfall:  Creating a Color Scheme with the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year and its Complement”.

In this writing, I discuss a method to create a diverging color scheme for data visualization using the 2023 Pantone Color of the Year. A diverging color scheme fuses two sequential color schemes, each with different hues, together with a shared neutral midpoint…

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne is a color expert. Her book on “Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization” was published by CRC Press in 2016.