# The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Theoretical Framework for the Assessment of Continuous Colormaps

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/good-bad-ugly-colormaps
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2743978
Added: 2026-09-27

## Summary

Turns colormap rules of thumb — order, uniformity, discriminative power — into definitions you can test.

- Resource: [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Theoretical Framework for the Assessment of Continuous Colormaps](https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2743978)
- By: Roxana Bujack, Terece Turton, Francesca Samsel, Colin Ware, David Rogers & James Ahrens
- Published: 2018
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-scales, perception, cielab, scientist, research

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

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