Crimson Brick Palette

Palette Details

Location	Hex Code	Name
Background	#FFFFFF	White
Title	#2D1115	Dark Sienna
Title	#DC143C	Crimson
Line	#000000	Black
Footer	#ACB0B1	Battleship Gray
Viz Highlight: Decreasing Populations	#DC143C	Crimson
Viz: Stable Populations	#CDCECD	Light Gray
Viz: Increasing Populations	#ACB0B1	Silver Chalice

Reading time:  1 min 22 secs

Usage

• Highlight data that is in crisis or warning condition

Description

This palette was created for a data set with data split into three groups: Increasing, Stable, and Decreasing Populations. The goal of the viz was to highlight the decreasing populations indicating a warning. A Crimson (#DC143C) was selected to highlight the warning or crisis state data. Two gray colors were used to represent the data for the Stable Populations -Light Gray (#CDCECD) and Increasing Populations - Silver Chalice (#ACB0B1). This allows the data in the warning state to pop out and have full focus of the viewer. The color of the titles, line, background and footer was selected to focus on the warning state's data.

Tableau Palette Code

Add the code snippet to your Preferences.tps, a xml file found in My Tableau Repository folder in your Documents directory. I typically Place above the </preferences> tag at the end. You can use a text or xml editor.

Tableau Code Snippet

(Download Snippet In A File)

<color-palette name="theYvonne Crimson Brick" type="regular" >

<color>#DC143C</color>

<color>#2D1115</color>

<color>#FFFFFF</color>

<color>#000000</color>

<color>#ACB0B1</color>

<color>#CDCECD</color>

<color>#ACB0B1</color>

</color-palette>

Preferences.tps Example File

Reference

• Tableau Software Documentation Create Custom Color Palettes
  

Example Viz

Tableau File Link

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