Colors
- Default Matplotlib colormaps
- Matplotlib colormap tricks
- Lightning Design System
- Hayk An’s color scale generator
- Coolors
- Color Pals
- Wes Anderson Palettes
- Palettable
- Image Color Picker
- ColorBrewer 2.0
- Specifying Matplotlib Colors
- Changing Lightness of Matplotlib Color
Default Matplotlib colormaps
Matplotlib colormap tricks
Lightning Design System
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Hayk An’s color scale generator
Make your colormap in seconds
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Coolors
Color palette generator. Copy #hex color in seconds.
Gradient, Monochromatic,
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Color Pals
Roni Kaufman’s extremely pleasing palettes.
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Wes Anderson Palettes
Palettable
Color palettes for Python.
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# how to import colormap
from palettable.colorbrewer.qualitative import Dark2_7
# how to retrieve color list
Dark2_7.hex_colors
Image Color Picker
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Upload your own image, use a picture from the internet, load a whole website!
ColorBrewer 2.0
Specifying Matplotlib Colors
xkcd, tableau, css
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List of named colors
Changing Lightness of Matplotlib Color
import matplotlib.colors
import colorsys
import numpy as np
def add_lightness(color_name, L):
"""
Receives a color name ("red", "tab:blue", "xkcd:green", etc),
Returns RGB values of same color with lightness L added to it (can be negative too)
"""
color_hls = colorsys.rgb_to_hls(*matplotlib.colors.to_rgb(color_name))
new_color_hls = np.array(color_hls)
new_color_hls[1] = new_color_hls[1] + L
if new_color_hls[1] > 1.0: new_color_hls[1] = 1.0
if new_color_hls[1] < 0.0: new_color_hls[1] = 0.0
new_shade_rgb = colorsys.hls_to_rgb(*new_color_hls)
return new_shade_rgb
add_lightness("gold", 0.1)