--- title: "Customising your dashboards: accessible colour considerations" description: Take a look at our recommendations around best practice for colour choices in customising your school's Intellischool dashboards. image: https://files.intellischool.net/hubfs/Imported%20sitepage%20images/photo-1525909002-1b05e0c869d8.jpeg --- [![Intellischool Logo - Color](https://blog.intellischool.co/hubfs/Intellischool%20Logo%20-%20Color.svg)](https://www.intellischool.co?hsLang=en) - Products ## Solutions for schools Our products are freeing educators from managing data, and shifting focus to improving from it. ### [Analytics Analytics for schools, embedded into everyday teaching and learning.](https://www.intellischool.co/en/analytics?hsLang=en) ### [Data Ops Automated data ops for schools. 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We'd love for you to express your creativity and represent your school's branding through colour choices. Given that almost 5% of the world's population are affected by colour blindness, including as many as 1 in 12 men, we're keen to pass on some tips and tricks to make sure your colour customisations take accessibility into consideration. ### Tip 1: Avoid light colours on white Pastel colours on a white background, such as in the example shown below, can make visualisations harder to interpret. Contrasting colours are more easily perceptible by people with colourblindness, so avoiding pastel colours on white backgrounds can help to make colours more discernible.  ![Screenshot 2023-06-29 at 11.14.58 am](https://files.intellischool.net/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-29%20at%2011.14.58%20am.png) ### Tip 2: Avoid particular colour combinations Here are a few colour combinations that we'd recommend you avoid, including too many bright/neon colours, dark on dark colours, and blue on red.  ![Screenshot 2023-06-29 at 12.00.23 pm](https://files.intellischool.net/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-29%20at%2012.00.23%20pm.png) If you're looking to accommodate colourblind staff, these colour combinations are especially challenging for people with colour blindness: - Green and red - Green and brown - Green and blue - Green and grey - Green and black - Light green and yellow - Blue and purple - Blue and grey ![Screenshot 2023-06-29 at 11.02.32 am](https://files.intellischool.net/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-29%20at%2011.02.32%20am.png)   ### Tip 3: Choose harmonious colours Choosing colours that stand out easily from the background and show weight will make visualisations friendlier to all users, not just those affected by colourblindness. There's a reason that we so often see black text on a white background - black against white represents the perfect contrast! Having said that, it's understandable to want to choose more interesting colour combinations for your dashboards.  Here are a few classic colour combinations:  ![Screenshot 2023-06-29 at 11.41.40 am](https://files.intellischool.net/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-29%20at%2011.41.40%20am.png) Here are a few tools that you might find helpful to generate harmonious colours: - [Adobe Colour: Colour wheel, a colour palette generator](https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel) - [Canva: Colour theory and colour wheel](https://www.canva.com/colors/color-wheel/) - [Coolors colour palette generator](https://coolors.co/) ### Ready to learn more? If you're not yet an Intellischool subscriber, and you're interested to learn more about our dashboards, including options for customisation and white-labelling, we'd love to chat. [Get in touch with us here.](mailto:hello@intellischool.co)   If you're a current Intellischool subscriber and would like support with customising the colours throughout your dashboards, [reach out to your dedicated Engagement Manager](mailto:help@intellischool.co). Happy customising!   **Sources:** [Why all designers need to understand color blindness - 99designs](https://99designs.com/blog/tips/designers-need-to-understand-color-blindness/) [About Colour Blindness - Colourblind Awareness](https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/) ## Similar posts Partnerships ### [Schoolbox + Intellischool: a powerful analytics solution for educators](https://blog.intellischool.co/schoolbox-intellischool-a-powerful-analytics-solution-for-educators?hsLang=en) In a new collaboration, we are excited to announce Schoolbox is working with Intellischool to integrate their Albitros analytics software within the... 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