Month: March 2022

New Feature: Better Color Selection Tools

Now, choosing a color theme for your Nodes is much more flexible and fun.

Screenshot showing the updated SankeyMATIC Nodes interface with the new section 'Default Node Colors' highlighted. This section presents radio buttons which select between 4 themes. Next to each theme's name is a display showing all of that theme's colors. On the left and right sides of the color groups are arrow buttons. These buttons control which color the theme begins with.
  • There are now four updated themes to choose from (up from 3). For more about these color schemes, visit the d3 color scales page.
  • Each theme’s colors are visible at all times.
  • You can now rotate the colors within a theme so that SankeyMATIC will start assigning colors from any point in the list that you choose.Click the “<” and “>” buttons for your selected theme to adjust the starting point.
  • Every color in every theme will reveal its color code when you hover over it.This is handy if you want to adopt one specific color in your inputs.
    • Example: Screenshot showing a mouse hovering over a single color in a theme. A tooltip appears with this text: #e7298a from d3 color scheme Dark2.
  • Try it out!

Additional changes:

  • SankeyMATIC now uses version 7.3.0 of the d3.js library (a major upgrade from version 2.10.3)
  • Labels for selected radio buttons and checkboxes are now highlighted with color to make them easier to find.Labels for un-selected radio buttons and checkboxes are now dark gray instead of black.