Pick a colorblind-safe palette for dashboard status

He can't tell your red bars from the green ones.

IntermediateRead 6 minDoing: one afternoon to swap the palette, add the redundant cues, and run all three checks6 steps

What you'll have at the end

A dashboard palette checked against three types of color blindness, with shapes or labels backing up every color

Before you start

You need

A dashboard where color carries a status or category distinction, with the exact hex values visible and editable, open in a modern browser.

Not covered

Choosing which chart type each KPI uses, or building a full brand-wide color system beyond this dashboard's own status coding.

Leans on

6 steps

A desktop dashboard that turns unreadable on a phone screen

a dashboard that also breaks on a phone screen needs a separate readability fix from the color one built here

Checked 26 Aug 2026