Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib
Summary
Matplotlib’s guide to choosing a built-in colormap, with a lightness plot for every map.
Covers sequential, diverging, cyclic, and qualitative classes, and shows why jet and other rainbows make poor defaults.
- Resource: Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib
- By: Matplotlib
- Kind: colormaps (article)
- Level: intermediate
- Tags: color-scales, data-viz, perception, cam16, scientist, tutorial, python