# Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/brewer-color-use-guidelines
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-042415-6.50014-4
Added: 2026-09-27

## Summary

The chapter that sorted map schemes into sequential, diverging, and qualitative — the typology ColorBrewer uses.

- Resource: [Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization](https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-042415-6.50014-4)
- By: Cynthia Brewer
- Published: 1994
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: cartography, color-scales, designer, scientist, research

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