color
saturation
also: chromaIntensity or purity of a color.
Examples
See the figure at Andrey Sitnik, Travis Turner (Evil Martians) ↗
Classification
- color
Attestation and synonyms
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- color saturation; Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
Sources (60)
790 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 13 books
Show the 60 sources
- A field guide to digital color
- alg.manifoldapp.org
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- datawrapper.de↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Elavsky, Chartability: POUR-CAF accessibility heuristics
- Envisioning information
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- git.apcacontrast.com
- github.com↗
- gka.github.io
- Graphic presentation
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- jfly.uni-koeln.de
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- sronpersonalpages.nl
- Stone, A Field Guide to Digital Color, 2003
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future
- Visualizing with text
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/saturation.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. saturation. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/saturation.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-saturation,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {saturation},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/saturation.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.