# New colorscheme for Plots.jl 2.0

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-colorscheme-for-plots-jl-2-0/117841
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** colors, poll, plots
**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-colorscheme-for-plots-jl-2-0/117841 "2024-08-05T12:39:40Z")
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### Author: ![empet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/empet/32/221303_2.png) [@empet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/empet)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-colorscheme-for-plots-jl-2-0/117841/2 "2024-08-05T14:55:24Z")

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Graphics libraries like matplotlib, plotly, bokeh, altair, have as default gradient a perceptually uniform  
colorscheme, but not one defined according to a color model that has more than 40 years (Crameri’s scientific colormaps, Kovesi colormaps are defined using such a model).  
These libraries (matplotlib, plotly, bokeh, altair, etc) have as default sequential colorscheme one defined according to a colormodel, presented at the link that follows, i.e. the same colormodel used in the definition of viridis, plasma, inferno, magma, and cmocean colormaps). More details here [https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-good-colorscheme-encodes-the-right-information-on-data-is-inferno-a-good-colorscheme/99962](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-good-colorscheme-encodes-the-right-information-on-data-is-inferno-a-good-colorscheme/99962).

Image illustrating that lajolla, devon, navia and lipari are not perceptually uniform:

 ![sci-colormaps](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/d/dd8a2c9b828c8d3cc723c22ef019a395953cf4bd.jpeg)

A good choice could be one of the sequential colormaps from cmocean package:

 ![cmocean-colorschemes](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/5/3519d46e319dca9918e12bef4c8461237ee742f5.jpeg)

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