An archive of colour gradients
For cartography, technical illustration and design. The archive supports several formats and is organised by author.
Relief map by Artem Pavlenko using Jim Mossman's California Dry
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
- Gradients by Diane Simoni
- A DEM palette by Erika Mackay
- Toning samples by Eric R. Jeschke
- Selected legends from the European Soil Database
- The DEM palettes from drawmap, by Fred M. Erickson
- GIMP gradients
- Palettes from the graphics packages GIST and Yorick
- Generic Mapping Tools palettes
- Two-colour glossy gradients from GoSquared
- GRASS colour ramps
- Spectral gradients by Hult
- Gradients by Ingerlise
- Technical gradients by J.J. Green
- The ShadeMax palettes by Jim Mossman
- James McNames' monotonic luminance ColorSpiral
- Loadboy's gradients for graphic design
- Gradients by Michele Arnold
- Precipitation palettes by Mark J. Fenbers
- Nevit Dilmen's extra gradients for the Gimp
- Pixel-art gradients by Neota
- 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
- 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
The complete set of cpt files is also available in the cpt-city package.
Views of 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
- Spectral hueshift palettes
- Various greys and near-greys
Notes
- The faq, answers to frequently asked questions
- The news on recent changes to the archive
- The formats supported
- Selected links to colour palette table resources
- Examples of colour gradient usage
- Notes for contributors
- A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to this site