# Accessible Color Sequences for Data Visualization

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/accessible-color-sequences
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02270
Added: 2026-09-27

## Summary

Six-, eight-, and ten-color cycles tuned for aesthetics, CVD, and grayscale; the ten-color set ships in Matplotlib.

Found by pairing a crowd-trained aesthetics model with accessibility constraints. The ten-color set is Matplotlib’s petroff10.

- Resource: [Accessible Color Sequences for Data Visualization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02270)
- By: Matthew A. Petroff
- Published: 2021
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: palettes, accessibility, data-viz, scientist, research, python

## In collections

- [Colorblind-Safe Workflows](https://colorcurio.us/library/collections/colorblind-safe-workflows)

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