Tried adding texture patterns to my graphs instead of just colors and it confused everyone in my department

I thought adding diagonal stripes and dots to a bar chart would help my colorblind coworkers but they said the patterns made it look like a 90s screensaver and now I just use different shades of one color with labels instead, has anyone else found patterns more distracting than helpful?

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simonreed6d ago

Does anyone actually look at graphs long enough to care about the texture of the bars?

the_shane6d ago

Long enough to care" is a stretch, it's just a bar graph.