# Cubehelix

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/cubehelix
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://people.phy.cam.ac.uk/dag9/CUBEHELIX/
Added: 2026-09-27

## Summary

A colormap that spirals around the grey axis while brightness rises steadily, so it survives black-and-white printing.

Designed for astronomical images; its parameters set the number of rotations and the saturation.

- Resource: [Cubehelix](https://people.phy.cam.ac.uk/dag9/CUBEHELIX/)
- By: Dave Green
- Published: 2011
- Kind: colormaps (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: color-scales, perception, data-viz, scientist, research

## In collections

- [Perceptual Colormaps](https://colorcurio.us/library/collections/perceptual-colormaps)

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