Random thoughts on distributing printed matter.
I noticed today that while the material I am reading on paper is black and white copies, the IBP original reports, the illustrations provided by the union budget, as well as web documents are color. This is just a detail, but this renders most graphs and charts useless because the colors don't translate meaningfully.
There could be two solutions to this:
1. creating bw "safe" color set standards for different organizations to use. example, set of colors that look differentiated both in color and as shades of gray.
2. creating "translation" between color into shades or pattern. This is more complicated, but lets people use whatever colors. it can be incorporated in to the print format feature as additional print bw format. how do we differentiate colors in black and white? have to look into disecting different characteristics of color to see which kind gives most likely combination of good bw differentiation.
Does this make any sense? How much cheaper is bw than color printing? is it worth it?
It must have been done already, need to do research.
If it hasn't, is it possible?
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there's really no one better to convert color to b/w than you. :)
seriously though, it's a smart idea and worth checking out.
here's a few tufte related chart/graph sites:
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/
maybe ask the man himself!
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1
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