diff --git a/src/compile/selection/scales.ts b/src/compile/selection/scales.ts
index d716bfa20e..ec68192b5e 100644
--- a/src/compile/selection/scales.ts
+++ b/src/compile/selection/scales.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ const scaleBindings: SelectionCompiler<'interval'> = {
       const scale = model.getScaleComponent(channel);
       const scaleType = scale ? scale.get('type') : undefined;
 
+      if (scaleType == 'sequential') {
+        log.warn(log.message.SEQUENTIAL_SCALE_DEPRECATED);
+      }
+
       if (!scale || !hasContinuousDomain(scaleType)) {
         log.warn(log.message.SCALE_BINDINGS_CONTINUOUS);
         continue;
diff --git a/src/log/message.ts b/src/log/message.ts
index 4f2cfd11d3..7d6826930e 100644
--- a/src/log/message.ts
+++ b/src/log/message.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ export function selectionNotFound(name: string) {
 export const SCALE_BINDINGS_CONTINUOUS =
   'Scale bindings are currently only supported for scales with unbinned, continuous domains.';
 
+export const SEQUENTIAL_SCALE_DEPRECATED =
+  'Sequntial scales are deprecated. The available quantitative scale type values are linear, log, pow, sqrt, symlog, time and utc';
+
 export const LEGEND_BINDINGS_MUST_HAVE_PROJECTION =
   'Legend bindings are only supported for selections over an individual field or encoding channel.';
 export function cannotLookupVariableParameter(name: string) {