The colors in well-designed information graphics have been chosen, hopefully by trained and experienced experts, to comply with numerous constraints. This work can all be wasted if the colors on the actual users' displays in their actual work settings are inaccurate. Potential sources of inaccuracy and their avoidance have been studied extensively for many years and are at least partly understood by display engineers and human factors experts. There has been somewhat less work devoted to understanding what accuracy is required for different kinds of tasks and graphics.

Our laboratory is working on understanding the impact of different kinds of color errors in applied settings.