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Use color well for your audience

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Use color well for your audience

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- [Instructor] Did you know that 5% of men are colorblind? Color can make your data story visible or invisible. Color is crucial in report design, from communicating the story in the data to harmonizing the experience. Luckily, Power BI offers us some tools to help out, so we don't have to go into the Formatting pane for each and every visual. The first of these can be found under the View menu. You see here that we have Themes. These are built-in themes, and if you hover over them, you can see they each have a name. These built-in themes set different kinds of colors, such as the background color, font colors, and default fill colors for the visuals. If you can see that, that says colorblind safe, that one. But actually, there's a whole set of accessible themes here, and these are designed with colorblindness in mind. The most common forms of colorblindness make it hard to distinguish red from green. So notice here, for example, that two of the standout colors are blue and orange…

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