Overview

The chart palette for SAC takes full advantage of the extended Brand DNA palette. It uses the colors from the brand to deliver consistent and accessible chart colors that address many customer requests. We use brand DNA also to define color gradations, continuous gradient palettes, IBCS, and more.

SAC Chart Palette

Color Gradation

Defining a color gradation is essential for any chart design. Color gradation provides predictability in charts and drives consistency. We determined the following color gradation for SAC based on the number of series. The principle of color gradation works the same way regardless of the number of colors used.

Color Gradation

For example, to create a 3-color gradation of blue colors, you need to use the Blue 6, Blue 8, and Blue 10 colors.

Semantic Gradation

Color gradation works the same way if multiple colors are used. For example, to create a 9-color semantic gradation, you can choose 3 negative colors, 2 neutral colors and 4 positive colors. This will result in a palette that is skewed slightly into the positive spectrum. Any combination from the positive, neutral and negative colors can be chosen. The neutral colors can even be omitted from the selection.

Mirrored Semantic Gradation

The mirrored semantic palette works the same way as the semantic one. To create the color spread pick and choose from the positive, critical and negative values available.

Hot-Cold Gradation

The Hot-Cold color gradation is a variant of the semantic one. The difference being that it has a very specific neutral color gradation in it.

SAC Palettes

Standard Palette

Examples of SAC Standard Palette

Sequential Palette

The sequential palette above shows the color progression of the blue color. That progression is identical for all other color hues from the BTP Extended DNA Palette.

IBCS Palette

Continuous Palette

Diverging Palette

Waterfall Palette

Geo Palette

Threshold Palette

Null Color