Cartography

An archive of colour gradients

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

For cartography, technical illustration and design. The archive supports several formats and is organised by author.

The Bénard-von Kármán instability with vorticity in the RdYlBu palette

Lewitt’s radial basis function rendered by POV-Ray, colour scheme by Cynthia Brewer

  • Colour schemes by Cynthia Brewer
  • Subtle gradients from Crumblingwalls
  • Gradients by Diane Simoni
  • Toning samples by Eric R. Jeschke
  • A DEM palette by Erika Mackay
  • Selected legends from the European Soil Database
  • The DEM palettes from drawmap, by Fred M. Erickson
  • Palettes from the graphics packages GIST and Yorick
  • Standard GMT palettes
  • Gimp gradients
  • Spectral gradients by Hult
  • Gradients by Ingerlise
  • Technical gradients by J.J. Green
  • The ShadeMax palettes by Jim Mossman
  • 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

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

Site statistics

  • Maps of the geographic distribution of downloads: cpt, ggr, grd, inc, svg
  • Monthly histories of downloads: cpt, ggr, grd, inc, svg
  • Downloads by format