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Colormap Catalog#

To use any colormap in the catalog, you can pass its name to the Colormap constructor:

from cmap import Colormap

cmap = Colormap("viridis")

Coming from matplotlib?

We test against all of the named colormaps in matplotlib, so any 'name' that you can use with matplotlib.colormaps['name'] can also be passed to cmap.Colormap. To convert a cmap.Colormap to a native matplotlib.colors.Colormap instance, you may call .to_mpl().

See Colormaps for how to apply it to your data, and the Colormap API docs for details.

Tip: Reversed colormaps

You can append '_r' to any of the colormap names listed below to get a reversed version of that colormap. For example, 'viridis_r'

viridis viridis_r

This works with function based colormaps as well:

cubehelix cubehelix_r

All colormaps#

Filter by name, source, or lightness profile below, or compare colormaps side by side.

659 colormaps
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