
✔︎ Perceptually uniform
✔︎ Perceptually ordered
✔︎ Colour-vision-deficiency friendly
✔︎ Readable as black&white print
Version 6.0.4 (06.01.2020, scm-vn6.0)
Crameri, F. (2018). Scientific colour maps. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1243862
Crameri, F. (2018), Geodynamic diagnostics, scientific visualisation and StagLab 3.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2541-2562, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-2541-2018
Usable with:
MatLab, Python, R, GMT, QGIS, Ncview, Ferret, Plotly, Paraview, VisIt, Mathematica, Gnuplot, Surfer, d3, SKUA-GOCAD, Petrel, Fledermaus, Qimera, ImageJ, Fiji, Kingdom, Originlab, GIMP, Inkscape, Photoshop, and more...
➡ Extra formats for QPS software
➡ Extra formats for Kingdom software
Spearheading software with built-in Scientific colour maps:
Spearheading studies using the Scientific colour maps:

Using unscientific colourmaps like the rainbow (a.k.a. jet) colour map distorts, hides, and thereby visually falsifies the underlying data, while often making the figure unreadable to colour-blind readers or when printed in black and white (see also #endrainbow).
