I'm putting together a palette for diagrams on my astronomy website but don't really have any idea of what I'm doing and would really appreciate some feedback.
Specifically if I should go with a true colour type approach taking heavily from [URL]http://donpmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/palette-of-planets.html[/URL] which is incomplete but looks like the colours are true averages of each planet and is the basis for mine or go for something that is based more on the exaggerated colours we often see in NASA photos.
What I have so far are these two
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/85slsou.png[/IMG]
With the exaggerated one I'm struggling to keep the colours coherent across it, I think this would be my preference for the final one but I think some advice is needed.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/s1ySS96.png[/IMG]
The diagrams will be along the lines of these existing ones if that's any help [URL]http://space-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/mars-size.png[/URL], , [URL]http://space-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/order-planets.png[/URL], [URL]http://space-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/dwarf-planets.png[/URL], [URL]http://space-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/pluto-size.png[/URL] & [URL]http://space-facts.com/wp-content/uploads/planets-to-scale.png[/URL].
Any comments are welcome.
I think it would look a lot better with some broad details, like bands on the jupiter one or rings on the saturn one. Also, since you're going with the exagerrate colour scheme I'd suggest you make some of them green-er, it would allow more seperation between each (although it would be less realistic obviously). Can you post some diagrams of how there will be used
[editline]3rd June 2013[/editline]
whoops, just saw the bottom of the post
I find the first one very soothing to look at
For the exaggerated one, I would make Earth green. I know it's not it's 'primary' colour but it still makes sense and it would make it much easier to differentiate it from Neptune.
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