DESIGN
Considering that Fleetwood Mac was one of the most influential rock groups of the ‘70s, I was hoping to use a color palette that helped to capture that era. I went on Pinterest and searched several ‘70s themed color palettes and was able to hand select the specific colors I utilized. Not only was choosing bright pinks and contrasting mustard yellows done because of the vibe I was going for, but also for the sake of accessibility. As seen in the photos to the left, the highly contrasting colors I used makes the design visible to people with different visions. While I only included what a person with Blue-Weak/Tritanomaly, Red-Weak/Protanomaly, and Blue-Blind/Tritanopia would see, my design was comprehensible by all the other visions aside from the monochromatic view. However, people with a monochromatic view would still be able to tell the popularity of each album and song, they’d just be unable to decipher which artist wrote what song. To elaborate, I chose to make a circle packing data visualization so I could focus on the hierarchies at play in my chosen design—something that could be understood by all who viewed it. Size and proportions are used to distinguish each album as well as each song from one another, showing which circles/dots are most significant amongst the others. By using size to indicate the popularity of each album/song, the eye knows where to be led, with the center of the design containing the most popular albums with the most popular songs. Lastly, I’d like to touch on the key. As I’ve already stated before, I only included the most popular song writers in Fleetwood Mac since if I were to include a color code for each band member, it would become hard to digest. I thought that having an enlarged form of the key to the right of the design would help emphasize the focus of the data visualization, as well as show significance behind the bursting colors I used.