# colorspace: A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/colorspace-toolbox
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v096.i01
Added: 2026-09-28

## Summary

The paper on R’s colorspace: HCL palettes, CVD emulation, and plots for judging a palette before you use it.

The follow-up to Escaping RGBland, showing how the theory became a working toolkit in R and Python.

- Resource: [colorspace: A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes](https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v096.i01)
- By: Achim Zeileis, Jason C. Fisher, Kurt Hornik, Ross Ihaka, Claire D. McWhite, Paul Murrell, Reto Stauffer & Claus O. Wilke
- Published: 2020
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-scales, palettes, accessibility, data-viz, cielab, scientist, research, r

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