ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps

By Mark Harrower, Cynthia A. Brewer. 2003

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Subfields: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Geography, Planning and Development, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

Can language models learn from explanations in context? (2022, methodology): “Plot colors are based on Harrower and Brewer (2003).”
STITCH 4: integration of protein–chemical interactions with user data (2013, methodology): “The user can then select a palette from the ColorBrewer2 color schemes (36).”
Interactive Visual Profiling of Musicians (2016, methodology): “As N is usually small – less than ten similar musicians –, we use the ColorBrewer [29] to generate a qualitative color map that provides solely saturated colors to be used on the bright website background.”
Stacking-Based Visualization of Trajectory Attribute Data (2012, methodology): “We give the user the freedom to choose one of the ColorBrewer scales according to his/her preferences or domain-speciﬁc conventions.”
The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works (2021, background): “The most thorough and inclusive option is to use color palettes that are safe for people with colorblindness, such as those proposed by Harrower and Brewer (2003), as seen in the bottom row of Figure 5.”
SpreaD3: Interactive Visualization of Spatiotemporal History and Trait Evolutionary Processes. (2016, background): “Visualization settings can be based on the attributes associated with each component and color choices are provided by ColorBrewer palettes (Harrower and Brewer 2003).”
distruct: a program for the graphical display of population structure (2003, methodology): “As an example, to use the ColorBrewer color scheme Accent 5 qual instead of the scheme in casia.perm, replace casia.perm with ColorBrewer/Accent 5 qual for the value of INFILE CLUST PERM in the drawparams file.”
Automated curricula through setter-solver interactions (2019, methodology): “Color palettes for plots were modiﬁed from Harrower & Brewer (2003).”
The RCSB Protein Data Bank: new resources for research and education (2012, methodology): “Color-blind friendly color schemes were adopted from ColorBrewer, a tool for selecting color schemes for maps (41).”
Analysis of biomedical data with multilevel glyphs (2014, methodology): “A great tool for carefully designed colormaps, which e.g. provides “ colorblind safe ” suggestions, can be found at http://colorbrewer2.org[37] Value (the brightness of an element) and the texture (with respect to the grain size of the texture) are ordered and can be mapped to an ordinal scale.”
ClustVis: a web tool for visualizing clustering of multivariate data using Principal Component Analysis and heatmap (2015, background): “The user can choose between a variety of diverging and sequential color schemes (11).”