Since it works well for maps it can also be used for simpler data visualizations like charts and graphs. ColorBrewer2Ĭynthia Brewer is Head of the Department of Geography at PennState and together with a team of UI designers and developers she created this wonderful online tool for creating color palettes for maps. Here are 5 really nice color selection tools that can help you achieve that. We’ll keep it practical and focus on the color principles that lead to easy to read and good looking data visualizations. We’re not going too deep into color theory here there are many great sources out there if you’d like to brush up on your color knowledge. I hope the video helps expand understanding and use of this powerful, free software.When you apply colors to quantitative data - like in charts, graphs or maps - you should primarily be concerned with the practical use of color artistic expression plays the second fiddle here. I have made a short video tutorial describing the actions necessary and how to manipulate the pattern size and scale within Inkscape. As you can see on the right in the image above, I think I figured it out! I recently had need to see how fabric would read in a design, so I set out to see if it was possible within Inkscape. I did not know if it was possible, and the best I had previously done was use the eyedropper tool to fill in the designs with solid colors from fabrics, as seen on the left in the image above. This is something that is definitely a huge plus for the Electric Quilt design software, and I was hoping I could figure out a way to use the free Inkscape software package to do the same. One of the things I have wanted to learn how to do within Inkscape is how to import fabric swatches and use the fabric swatches in my designs.

Inkscape swatches