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The choice of the colors is strange. The most difficult languages are painted blue and green, and the easiest are red, and English is pale red. I suppose it sho
by madisfun 9y ago
The choice of the colors is strange. The most difficult languages are painted blue and green, and the easiest are red, and English is pale red. I suppose it should be the opposite.
- wastedhours 9y agoThat was my first thought, I'm currently learning one coloured in red, and looked at the map and thought "oh *". Really interesting to hear the approaches to learning, currently going through Duolingo which is helping with vocab, but don't think it's going to help at all with proper conversation.
- erk__ 9y agoThe colours are also a poor choice for people who are colourblind.
- gregoire 9y agoIndeed, the map is hard to parse. I think that this presentation gives good advice regarding maps design: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/data-looks-better-naked-maps-edition https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/data-looks-better-naked-...
- wruza 9y agoI think they choose red..violet color spectrum as a base for easy..hard axis. Doesn’t explain light red though. Anyway, it is unusual and very hard to read.
- Fummy 9y agoI made the map and chose it that way just because I associate germanic languages and english with the colour red. I changed it in a later version. https://imgur.com/gallery/37xlzKE https://imgur.com/gallery/37xlzKE