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ColorBrewer is an online tool for selecting map color schemes based on palettes created by
Cynthia Brewer Cynthia A. Brewer is an American professor of geography at the Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, and author. She has worked as a map and atlas design consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau, National Cancer Institute, National Center fo ...
. It was launched in 2002 by Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State University. Suggested color schemes are based on data type (sequential, diverging, or qualitative). It also provides options for varied display environments, such as laptop, photocopy, and LCD projector, and colorblind safe options. ColorBrewer is licensed using Apache 2.0 software license, which is similar to
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.


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.
*YlGn
*YlGnBu
*GnBu
*BuGn
*PuBuGn
*PuBu
*BuPu
*RdPu
*PuRd
*OrRd
*YlOrRd
*YlOrBr
*Purples
*Blues
*Greens
*Oranges
*Reds
*Greys

*PuOr
*BrBG
*PRGn
*PiYG
*RdBu
*RdGy
*RdYlBu
*Spectral
*RdYlGn

*Accent
*Dark2
*Paired
*Pastel1
*Pastel2
*Set1
*Set2
*Set3


Applications

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 Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes, climate timelines or stripe graphics) are data visualization graphics that use a series of coloured stripes chronologically ordered to visually portray long-term temperature trends. Wa ...
graphics, which visually summarize global warming as an ordered sequence of stripes.


See also

*
Map coloring In cartography, map coloring is the act of choosing colors as a form of map symbol to be used on a map. In mathematics, map coloring is the act of assigning colors to features of a map such that no two adjacent features have the same color using t ...
* Choropleth map *
Chorochromatic map A Chorochromatic map (), also known as an area-class, qualitative area, or mosaic map, is a type of thematic map that portray regions of categorical or nominal data using variations in color symbols. Chorochromatic maps are typically used to re ...


References

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