ColorBrewer
ColorBrewer is an online tool for selecting
colorblind safe options.[2]
ColorBrewer is licensed using
CC-BY-SA 3.0.[3]
Brewer palettes
Valid names and a full color representation for each palette are shown below. If this is viewed in a compliant browser, moving the mouse cursor over each box will pop up the corresponding color number as a tooltip.
Sequential (1-9)
- YlGn
- YlGnBu
- GnBu
- BuGn
- PuBuGn
- PuBu
- BuPu
- RdPu
- PuRd
- OrRd
- YlOrRd
- YlOrBr
- Purples
- Blues
- Greens
- Oranges
- Reds
- Greys
Divergent (1-11)
- PuOr
- BrBG
- PRGn
- PiYG
- RdBu
- RdGy
- RdYlBu
- Spectral
- RdYlGn
Qualitative (1-8/12)
- Accent
- Dark2
- Paired
- Pastel1
- Pastel2
- Set1
- Set2
- Set3
Applications
Palette chosen by climatologist Ed Hawkins in his warming stripes graphics for portraying global warming
Example of a display with warming stripes, at a climate conference
In 2018, climate scientist Ed Hawkins chose the eight most saturated blues and reds from the ColorBrewer 9-class single-hue palettes in his design of warming stripes graphics, which visually summarize global warming as an ordered sequence of stripes.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Miller, Greg. "The Cartographer Who's Transforming Map Design". Wired. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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- S2CID 140173239, archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-05-10, retrieved 2013-01-03
- ^ Bugden, Erica (3 December 2019). "Do you really understand the influential warming stripes?". Voilà Information Design. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019.