Why use similar colors in the respiration graph?

...happens when the Garmin software engineer does also do the UI design work with the left hand or in other words upper management in Kansas never understood what is the actual of an real fulltime UI designer and for what these guys are really paid for.

It's not only respiratory graphs, take a look at the sleep bar graphs for the sleep stages, the color for "awake" and "REM" are both pink color with an slightly different hue value, hard to distinguish and utterly UI nonsense.

Such design choices really keeps you wonder does Garmin actually has an UI department at all.

tfa said:

It's not only respiratory graphs, take a look at the sleep bar graphs for the sleep stages, the color for "awake" and "REM" are both pink color with an slightly different hue value, hard to distinguish and utterly UI nonsense.

I am not advocating the color choice, but unlike in this case, those are very easily distinguishable by the height of the columns (each type has different height) even if you are completely colorblind, so it does not really pose any problem there.

that's of course a valid point I need to agree wholeheartedly ( to be honest: until now I never realized the bar height separates the stages, I always went for the colours) but still keeps me wonder:

if the height if the bar separates the stages why then use 4 colours with 2 colour tones at all?

Especially the REM and Awake (both painted in shades of pink) are not really belonging together but are opposite sleep stages.

IMO still bad UI colour choices, take a look here how (old) Fitbit (using blue and red as opposite) and Garmin compares side by and see which graph is easier to comprehend

(and no I'm not saying Fitbit is good they also have lot of other issues but UI wise their was way ahead)

Way worth than that, because I am a software developer, a user, but not an UI/UX designer and with the little common sense stuck between my ears I can tell, that I almost cannot tell.... the difference between these 2 colors. I am a man, not color blind and with 30 seconds of googling I could find 10 better color combinations, even such that are also distinguishable by color blinds.

No, because then you can't read the legend, where are only colors, no height...

flocsy🤠 said:

No, because then you can't read the legend, where are only colors, no height...

If you can read the legend, I suppose you can also read the labels on the Y axis. And they tell it clearly

Not in the graph I posted

As already written, I completely agree about the Respiration graph. I was just commenting on the post of tfa mentioning the Sleep graph, where I wrote the choice of colors does not matter that much as in the case of Respiration.

Aaaand the official, but arguably super stupid answer from Garmin:

"Thanks for providing feedback to how we can design our graphs a bit better in color. Please input your idea on making the coloring better here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/"