Matplotlib Color Maps

The title of each picture is a color map name. I use the version 1.2.1 of matplotlib. Click the picture to see a bigger image. (Produced by Min-Su Shin.)

If you're interested in finding a right color map...

  • Introduction to Video and Image Processing, Chapter 3. Color Images by Thomas B. Moeslund
  • The Psychology of Color
  • Color theory
  • Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?
  • Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization
  • Color Schemes Appropriate for Scientific Data Graphics
  • About NCL color tables
  • vis4.net - color
  • the HCL color-space
  • Colorbrewer
  • Photoshop-like JavaScript Color Picker
  • The Effect of Color Choice on Learner Interpretation of a Cosmology Visualization