How Bad Is Your Colormap?

Summary

A short function that renders any Matplotlib colormap in grayscale, exposing jet’s bands and reversals.

• Resource: How Bad Is Your Colormap?
• By: Jake VanderPlas
• Published: 2014
• Kind: writing (article)
• Level: intermediate
• Tags: color-scales, perception, data-viz, scientist, tutorial, python

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• Perceptual Colormaps

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