# Choosing Color Palettes (seaborn)

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/seaborn-color-palettes
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html
Added: 2026-09-28

## Summary

Seaborn’s tutorial on qualitative, sequential, and diverging palettes, with the reasoning behind its defaults.

The clearest short case for choosing a palette by data type, written for people who want a good plot in Python. It also introduces seaborn’s own maps: rocket, mako, flare, crest, vlag, and icefire.

- Resource: [Choosing Color Palettes (seaborn)](https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html)
- By: Michael Waskom
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: beginner
- Tags: color-scales, palettes, data-viz, scientist, developer, tutorial, python

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