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✔︎ Perceptually uniform

✔︎ Perceptually ordered

✔︎ Colour-vision-deficiency friendly     

✔︎ Readable as black&white print

✔︎ Provided in all major formats

✔︎ Citable & reproducible

Download and use the Scientific colour map label .

Scientific colour maps 6.0

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

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Short overview on the importance Scientific colour maps. · EGU poster

Background information about Scientific colour maps. · EGU GD blog

 

acton · bamako · batlow · berlin · bilbao · broc · buda · cork · davos · devon · grayC · hawaii · imola · lajolla · lapaz · lisbon · nuuk · oleron  · oslo · roma · tofino · tokyo · turku · vik  

romaO · brocO · corkO · vikO

➡ Categorical colour map type

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

➡ Extra formats for Originlab software

➡ Extra formats for Photoshop

> Previous versions 

Spearheading software with built-in Scientific colour maps:

  • StagLab 3.0 and later
  • GMT 6.0 and later
  • TopoToolbox 2.2 and later
  • SubMachine
  • Geoscience ANALYST 2.80 and later


Spearheading studies using the Scientific colour maps:

  • Okada et al. (2020). Highly porous nature of a primitive asteroid revealed by thermal imaging. Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2102-6
  • Wright et al. (2019). Cue-inhibited ventrolateral periaqueductal gray neurons signal fear output and threat probability in male rats, eLife, doi:10.7554/eLife.50054
  • Coltice et al. (2019), What drives tectonic plates?, Science Adv., doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax4295
  • Münchmeyer et al. (2019), Low uncertainty multifeature magnitude estimation with 3-D corrections and boosting tree regression, GJI, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz416
  • Arnould et al. (2019), Northward drift of the Azores plume in the Earth’s mantle, Nature Commun., doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11127-7
  • Döhmann et al. (2019), Strain Localization and Weakening Processes in Viscously Deforming Rocks, JGR, doi:10.1029/2018JB016917
  • Scott et al. (2019), A probabilistic geologic model of the Krafla geothermal system constrained by gravimetric data, Geothermal Energy, doi:10.1186/s40517-019-0143-6
  • Biedermann et al. (2019), Anisotropy of (partial) isothermal remanent magnetization, GJI, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz234
  • Duretz et al. (2019), Numerical modelling of Cretaceous Pyrenean Rifting, Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12389
  • Straume et al. (2019), GlobSed: Updated total sediment thickness in the world's oceans, G-cubed, doi:10.1029/2018GC008115
  • Golledge et al. (2019), Global environmental consequences of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt, Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0889-9
  • Albano et al. (2018), Aftershock Rate and Pore Fluid Diffusion, JGR, doi:10.1029/2018JB015677
  • Foley (2018), The dependence of planetary tectonics on mantle thermal state, Phil. Trans. R. Soc., doi:10.1098/rsta.2017.0409
  • Thieulot (2018), GHOST: Geoscientific Hollow Sphere Tessellation, Solid Earth, doi:10.5194/se-9-1169-2018
  • Solferino and Golabek (2018), Olivine grain growth in partially molten Fe-Ni-S, EPSL, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.027
  • Orosei et al. (2018), Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars, Science, doi:10.1126/science.aar7268
  • Agrusta et al. (2018), Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth, Nature Commun., doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05194-5
  • Maupin (2017), 3-D sensitivity kernels of the Rayleigh wave ellipticity, GJI, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx294
Mars Express detects water buried under the south pole of Mars (Figure featuring the scientific colour-map 'broc' from Orosei et al., 2018, Science). Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Map 'oslo' from Agrusta et al., 2018, Nature Comm.) 3-D sensitivity kernels of the Rayleigh wave ellipticity (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Map 'broc' from Maupin 2017, GJI) Olivine grain growth in partially molten Fe-Ni-S: A proxy for the genesis of pallasite meteorites. (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Map 'lajolla' from Solferino and Golabek 2018, EPSL) Seismic tomography model mapped onto a spherical shell grid produced with GHOST (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Map 'vik' from Thieulot 2018, Solid Earth) Planform of convection showing various model parameters (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Maps 'vik' from Foley 2018, Phil. Trans. R. Soc.) Coseismic deformation pattern (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Maps 'batlow' and 'broc' from Albano et al., 2018, JGR) Modelled patterns at 2100 of environmental changes (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Maps 'vik' and 'oslo' from Golledge et al. 2019, Nature) Bathymetry, sediment thickness and oceanic-plate age (Figure featuring the Scientific Colour-Maps 'oslo', 'lapaz' and 'bilbao' from Straume et al. 2019, G-cubed) Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Maps cork and vik in Döhmann et al. 2019, JGR. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map batlow in Münchmeyer et al. 2019, GJI. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map oslo in Kareta et al. - PrePrint. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Maps batlow and bamako in Scott et al. 2019, Geothermal Energy. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map lapaz in Duretz et al. 2019, Basin Research. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Maps batlow and roma in Coltice et al. 2019, Science Reports. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map lajolla in Arnould et al. 2019, Nature Communications. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map vik in Wright et al., 2019, eLife. AGU Gcubed April 2019 issue cover made by Straume et al. (2019) featuring the Scientific Colour Map 'lapaz'. Figure featuring the Scientific Colour Map roma in Okada et al. (2020, Nature). Figure featuring all Scientific Colour Maps (version 6.0) in TopoToolbox by Wolfgang Schwanghart.

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).

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