Colors on the map for multistate features

[NataliiaHue]

For multistate features, the colors on the map are green, red and orange, and with alpha (transparency) orange and red look very similar. Would it be possible to use another color instead of orange to make it stand out a little bit more?
If we wanted to take into account that some people don't distinguish green and red, then all these three colors would look the same to them.

[HedvigS]

These colors is an option, that would match the manuscript

• #593d9cff
• #f68f46ff
• #73D055FF

[HedvigS]

@NataliiaHue what do you think?
#50

[NataliiaHue]

I guess violet will be more distinguishable from orange than red, when made transparent.

[HedvigS]

I guess violet will be more distinguishable from orange than red, when made transparent.

@johenglisch you decide.

In the grambank paper, we use

"#593d9cff"
"#f68f46ff"
"#00c5cdFF"

and this scale:

[johenglisch]

Hm, I think I'm just gonna roll with the current version. The only thing that might potentially cause trouble could be the turquoise and the blue but they only co-occur in two features (GB193 and GB203).

If they do actually end up causing trouble we can always go in later and change the colours, or disable transparency, or go full playstation if we have to. Until then I'd say good enough is good.

[HedvigS]

Claire Bowern said:

Grambank is so cool :) but you know that!
quick (and not urgent) question about map colors - the default green and yellow don't show up that well on slides, particularly on the terrain map options. wals has a way to change things, will that be an option for grambank at some point?

[NataliiaHue]

will that be an option for grambank at some point?

I don't know, will it be, @johenglisch?

[chirila]

The main issue is the binary features don't show up too well on the terrain map, particularly on slides (ie when projected from far away)

[xrotwang]

Yes, WALS has some functionality to select map markers per feature value. That implementation is somewhat brittle and outdated, though (e.g. it doesn't allow for selecting arbitrary colors, or controlling transparency). A slightly more modern implementation would make use of a tool like coloris, but that would require quite a bit of rewiring and writing hard-to-test UI code.

Since the Grambank data is available as CLDF dataset, I'd rather recommend using tools such as cldfviz to create custom maps with full(er) control over appearance of map markers.

[xrotwang]

After a bit of experimentation, a solution based on coloris looks workable. To get this working for combined features and trees will still take more work.

[xrotwang]

@chirila I just pushed a new implementation of marker-customization functionality for WALS, see for example https://wals.info/feature/1A?iconsize=20&labels=0&v1=s0000dda3&v2=d9999ff9e&v3=cffffff9e&v4=tff66ffa0&v5=fdd000087
This functionality could be integrated in Grambank as well. Let me know whether that addresses your issue.

[xrotwang]

@HedvigS should I go ahead and deploy the marker-selection functionality?

[HedvigS]

Sure! I don't have strong feelings on this, I trust your judgment on what is the best thing to do here.

[chirila]

Wonderful, many thanks!

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