Nature Color Palette

Microsoft Office and Inkscape/GIMP color palette optimized for color-blind individuals

What's this?

Many academic journals request to use colors in artworks with consideration for color-blindness. Some nature journals recommend in the author guide to use color optimized for color-blind individuals

This color palette is a GIMP/Inkscape color palette based on it.

This palette contains...

The original material is...

• Wong, B. Points of view: Color blindness. Nat Methods 8, 441 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1618

Installation

Place NatureColorPalette.gpl at the palettes folder.

For MS Office in Windows10

1. Download the newest version in release page and find out NatureColorPalette.xml.
2. Place the *.xml file into %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes\Theme Colors
3. Launch MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint and apply Nature color theme.
4. You can use the color palette:
   

For Inkscape in Linux

cd ~/.config/inkscape/palettes
git clone https://github.com/atsuyaw/NatureColorPalette

For Inkscape in Windows10

1. Download the newest version in release page and find out NatureColorPalette.gpl.
2. Place the *.gpl file into %ProgramFiles%\Inkscape\share\inkscape\palettes.
3. Launch Inkscape and click [View] / [Swatches...] on the menu bar.
4. You can choose Nature and use it.