An archive of colour gradients
For cartography, technical illustration and design. The archive supports several formats and is organised by author.
Europe at night with GMT nighttime by Andreas Trawoeger
A map of Northfield, Vermont, using the Arizona Ochre and Smack Dab palettes
Sting's blank topographic map of France using the Wikipedia scheme
CT image of the brain with Neota's green metal gradient
The Bénard-von Kármán instability with vorticity in the RdYlBu palette
- Colour schemes by Cynthia Brewer
- Selected five-colour palettes from COLOURlovers
- Subtle gradients from Crumblingwalls
- Palettes for positive functions by Duncan Agnew
- 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
- Vista login button gradients by Fused Graphics
- The DEM palettes from drawmap, by Fred M. Erickson
- Felix von Luschan skin-colour scales
- GIMP gradients
- Palettes from the graphics packages GIST and Yorick
- Generic Mapping Tools palettes
- Two-colour glossy gradients from GoSquared
- GRASS colour ramps
- Colour tables from the h5utils package
- Spectral gradients by Hult
- Gradients by Ingerlise
- Technical gradients by J.J. Green
- The ShadeMax palettes by Jim Mossman
- James McNames' monotonic luminance ColorSpiral
- KST colour tables
- Loadboy's gradients for graphic design
- Gradients by Michele Arnold
- Precipitation palettes by Mark J. Fenbers
- 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
- Colour scales from NASA's OceanColor site
- Gradients from the Open Clip Art Library
- Digital art gradients by Onecoldcanadian
- Piecrust Design's natural gradients
- Gradients by Peggy Jentoft
- Gradients from Restless Concepts
- Rich Franzen's pseudogrey
- Web 2⋅0 gradients from Sarah Davison
- DEM palettes by Thomas Dewez
- Nonlinear greyscales by Thomas Lotze
- Victor Huerfano's Caribbean DEM palette
- Wikipedia elevation gradients
Complete sets of gradient files are also available for download.
Selections from the archive
- The most popular palettes: cpt, ggr, grd, inc, svg
- Palettes for bathymetry and a selection of blues
- Palettes for topography
- Mixed palettes for topography & bathymetry
- Schemes for temperature
- Schemes for precipitation
- Spectral hueshift palettes
- Various greys and near-greys
- 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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