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Helpful links for designing figures

How to select beautiful colors

• Color Brewer 2
  • selection of color palettes that are heavily used in scientific literature
• Coolors
  • given colors you already have or want, find additional colors that are cohesive!
  • numerous color palettes to make your figures more unique
  • some features behind paywall, but free version is still useful

Graphic design

• A series of papers from Nature Methods on data visualization