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🕵️ Why are they cool?

· Perceptually uniform
· Perceptually ordered
· Colour-blind friendly
· Readable as B&W print
· Highly compatible
· Versioned & citable
🧑‍🎤 What‘s new?

· #glasgow, #lipari, #navia & #managua
· Improvements to existing palettes
· More formats (e.g., .pal for ODV)
· Colour hand-picker for discrete & categorical palettes

See details about all new additions:
fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps-use… Colour map diagnostics of t...Colour map diagnostics of t...Colour map diagnostics of t...Colour map diagnostics of t...
🧑‍🏫 Why using them?

Read:
Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard, and P.J. Heron (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Communications, 11, 5444.
doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Or ask
@ShepGracie and @philipheron
🧑‍🔧 How to use them?

· By importing one of the 20 formats (follow: fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps-use…)
· Through tools with built-in versions
· Via various apps and packages for MatLab, Python, R, Julia, …
· By hand-picking individual colours from the image: s-ink.org/scientific-col…

and remember to:
· use a data-specific colour gradient and palette: s-ink.org/colour-map-gui…
· acknowledge their free use based on their MIT licence
👮How to spread the word?

· Hold your peers (incl. supervisors) accountable!
· Hold your software designers accountable!
· Hold your editors accountable!

s-ink.org/scientific-col…
🦸 How to support them & my work?

· Cite them: Crameri, F. (2018). Scientific colour maps. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
· Book a seminar: fabiocrameri.ch/masterclasses
· Commission professional graphic design: undertone.design
· Donate a coffee: fabiocrameri.ch/products
❤️

Made with lots of love.
Bit of fury.
And some ink.

– Fabio

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