Need more design colors?

[geoerika]

We have 7 basic colours right now, if our data array has more than 7 items, colours start repeating and when we hover in a pie chart we have both data sets with the same colour highlighted.

[woozyking]

no need to reinvent the wheel when D3 has already done a great job on ordinal/categorical data color palettes

https://github.com/d3/d3-3.x-api-reference/blob/master/Ordinal-Scales.md#categorical-colors

can explore a little more on the d3.scale namespace to see if there are more.

There are also extensions that has more palettes for categorical data, but also has the ability to generate an arbitrary number of colors to fit better for transitional schemes like the one used in repo list view from GitHub itself

[Goondrious]

Depends if the colors are intended to be in line with the aesthetic that our design system will have. I assumed that we would have a pretty tailored set of colors.