Carlos de Toro 
A bit obsessed about colors in Maps and how the Google Design Team streamlined a palette of 700+ colors down to 25 major and minor tones making the Map more accessible and recognizable. https://design.google/library/exploring-color-google-maps #Design 🗺️🧭📍🌈
Exploring Color on Google Maps
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 and minor tones—all while making the Map more accessible and more recognizable-ly Google.