How a minimalist approach unlocked our ability to create a more detailed representation of the world Could a new color system help simplify Google Maps, a complex data visualization of the real world? This team’s idea sparked a year-long collaboration and led to a feat that no one in Map’s 15-year-history thought was possible. They dramatically streamlined a palette of 700+ colors down to 25 major
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