Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps
Summary
Nine colormaps tested on distance judgments: viridis holds up at every span; single-hue blues blur small gaps.
Diverging maps also stumbled when a comparison crossed the midpoint.
- Resource: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps
- By: Yang Liu & Jeffrey Heer
- Published: 2018
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-scales, perception, data-viz, scientist, research