An archive of colour gradients
Nord: arctic, north-bluish colour palettes
The Moon's Mare Tranquillitatas, landing site for Apollo 11, by Paul Naylor
The northwest Gulf of Mexico with the cmocean delta scale
The MER Opportunity landing point on Western Arabia Terra, Mars, colour-ramp by Christopher Wesson
A map of Colombia using the Shadowxfox scheme
Example Chandra image painted with the ImageJ cequal LUT
For cartography, technical illustration and design. The archive supports several formats and is organised by author.
- Schemes from the GRID-Arendal map & graphics library
- Art gradients by Blackheartedwolf
- Colour schemes by Cynthia Brewer
- The cividis map by Nuñez, Anderton and Renslow
- Obesity scales from CalorieLab
- The cmocean palettes by Kristen M. Thyng
- Selected five-colour palettes from COLOURlovers
- Subtle gradients from Crumblingwalls
- Palettes for positive functions by Duncan Agnew
- Dave Green's cubehelix for astronomical intensity images
- Gradients by Diane Simoni
- DS9 colour scales for astronomical visualisation
- A DEM palette by Erika Mackay
- Toning samples by Eric R. Jeschke
- Themed art gradients by ElvenSword
- Selected legends from the European Soil Database
- ESRI colour ramp collection
- Colour maps from Fractint
- Vista login button gradients by Fused Graphics
- The DEM palettes from drawmap, by Fred M. Erickson
- Felix von Luschan skin-colour scales
- Art gradients by Gacruxa
- A seismic amplitude scheme by Gery
- GIMP gradients
- Palettes from the graphics packages GIST and Yorick
- Generic Mapping Tools palettes
- Two-colour glossy gradients from GoSquared
- Gradients from GIMP Paint Studio
- GRASS colour ramps
- Colour tables from the h5utils package
- Colour palettes for geological time by Christian Heine
- Spectral gradients by Hult
- The IBCAO scheme for Arctic bathymetry
- The IBCSO scheme for the Southern Ocean
- A selection of scales from Unidata IDV
- ImageJ lookup tables for astronomy
- Gradients by Ingerlise
- Technical gradients by J.J. Green
- The ShadeMax palettes by Jim Mossman
- James McNames' monotonic luminance ColorSpiral
- Diverging colour-maps by Kenneth Moreland
- KST colour tables
- Loadboy's gradients for graphic design
- Gradients by Michele Arnold
- A topo-bathymetric scheme by M. Burak Yikilmaz
- Precipitation palettes by Mark J. Fenbers
- Perceptually uniform colour-maps for matplotlib
- Colour maps from NCL (NCAR command language)
- The NCDC's scheme for probability of a white Christmas
- Nevit Dilmen's extra gradients for the GIMP
- Pixel-art gradients by Neota
- The NGDC's global relief palette for ETOPO1
- Legends for geospatial data by the NJGS
- Nord: arctic, north-bluish colour palettes
- The NSA boundless informant heatmap
- Colour scales from NASA's OceanColor site
- Gradients from the Open Clip Art Library
- Digital art gradients by Onecoldcanadian
- Ordnance Survey 1:250,000 elevation scale
- Piecrust Design's natural gradients
- Gradients by Peggy Jentoft
- Gnuplot pm3d example scales by Petr Mikulík
- Paul Naylor's lunar topography ramp
- Rafi's sky gradients
- Gradients from Restless Concepts
- Rich Franzen's pseudogrey
- SAGA preset colour tables
- Web 2⋅0 gradients from Sarah Davison
- Statistik Stadt Zürich scales
- DEM palettes by Thomas Dewez
- Nonlinear greyscales by Thomas Lotze
- Tom Patterson's topographic scales
- Meteorological schemes from the UK Met Office
- Victor Huérfano's Caribbean DEM palette
- An OS martian topgraphy ramp by Christopher Wesson
- Wikipedia schemes
- Bathymetry from XKCD 1040
Complete sets of gradient files are also available for download.
Selections from the archive
- The most popular palettes: cpt, c3g, ggr, gpf, inc, map, pg, psp, qgs, sao, svg
- Palettes for bathymetry and a selection of blues
- Palettes for topography
- Mixed palettes for topography & bathymetry
- Schemes for temperature
- Schemes for precipitation
- Various reds, greys, greens
- Schemes for diverging data
- Palettes with transparency
- Gradients of discordance
Notes
- The faq, answers to frequently asked questions
- The news on recent changes to the archive
- The formats supported
- Selected general and software links
- Copyright information
- Notes for contributors
- A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to this site
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