Overview of complete set of Scientific colour maps containing exclusively perceptually-uniform and colour-vision deficiency (and colour-blind) friendly colour palettes by Fabio Crameri. The package includes all different gradient- and palette types, which are explained on s-ink.org/colour-palette-and-gradient-types. A user guide on when to use which colour map type and colour combination is available from s-ink.org/colour-map-guideline.
- Creator: Fabio Crameri
- Original version: 20.09.2021
- This version: 14.06.2023
- License: MIT License
- Specific citation: The Scientific colour maps by Fabio Crameri (Crameri 2018) prevent visual distortion of the data and exclusion of readers with colour-vision deficiencies (Crameri et al., 2020) and the overview graphic is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
- Related references:
Crameri, F. (2018). Scientific colour maps. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1243862
Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and P.J. Heron (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Communications, 11, 5444. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7
- Different aspect ratio versions
- Light & dark versions
- Colour-vision deficiency friendly
- Readable in black&white
- Colour maps: Open-access
- Colour maps: Various formats
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nice palettes, the gnuplot versions are broken. They have “set palette defined” twice, easily fixed
Thank you. I fixed it and will make it, together with other fixes, available in the next Scientific colour map update. – Fabio via s-ink.org