matplotlib better colormap
colormaps
defaults
Choosing Colormaps
cmocean: Beautiful colormaps for oceanography
Colorcet: Peter Kovesi's perceptually uniform colormaps
Fabio Crameri's Scientific Colour-Maps
cmcrameri · PyPI
Google AI Blog: Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-colormap-for.html
Turbo Colormap Look-up Table · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/mikhailov-work/ee72ba4191942acecc03fe6da94fc73f
Turbo Colormap for Matplotlib · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/FedeMiorelli/640bbc66b2038a14802729e609abfe89
New rainbow colormap: sawthoot-shaped lightness profile | MyCarta
Bipolar colormap translated from Matlab into Python · GitHub
cmweather
cmocean
EndRainbow
MetPy Mondays `#106 - Choosing a colortable for your data : Unidata Developer's Blog https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/entry/metpy-mondays-106-choosing-a
No more rainbows! — Agile
also matplotlib topographic hillshading
Perceptually Uniform Colormaps in Matplotlib
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/krischer/d35096a9d3b6da5846a5
HESS - Rainbow color map distorts and misleads research in hydrology – guidance for better visualizations and science communication
https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/4549/2021/
Geophysical tutorial – How to evaluate and compare colormaps in Python | MyCarta
https://mycarta.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/geophysical-tutorial-how-to-evaluate-and-compare-colormaps-in-python/
Visualizing Science: How Color Determines What We See - Eos
https://eos.org/features/visualizing-science-how-color-determines-what-we-see
How Bad Is Your Colormap? | Pythonic Perambulations
https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/10/16/how-bad-is-your-colormap/
Better colormaps with brewer2mpl
https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2013/10/07/brewer2mpl/
brewer2mpl – colorbrewer2 and Python – Pen and Pants
https://penandpants.com/2012/07/27/brewer2mpl/
Ocean Science Hack: Colors (sequential data) in Japanese
http://oceansciencehack.blogspot.com/2014/10/colors-sequential-data.html
Ocean Science Hack: Colors (diverging data) in Japanese
http://oceansciencehack.blogspot.com/2014/10/colors-diverging-data.html
4 Essential Tools to Help You Select a Colour Palette for Your Data Visualisation | by Andy McDonald | Towards Data Science
See also
matplotlib handling colors