Recent changes
- 03/02/2026
- Added the Scientific colour maps by Fabio Crameri.
- 29/01/2026
- Reimplemented the site in Ruby on Rails.
- 20/10/2025
- Updated the Heine schemes for geological time.
- 07/08/2025
- Renamed Diane Simoni's Fuchsia gradients.
- 28/07/2025
- Added the Painbow scheme to XKCD.
- 26/03/2025
- Added schemes from Nicholas Rougeux's recreation of Mose Harris' colour wheels.
- 26/02/2025
- Added Kate Morley’s 12-bit rainbow scheme.
- 23/07/2021
- Added the usgs schemes by the USGS and Dr. Richard L. Langford.
- 15/08/2019
- The gradients are now available in map format, as used by Tecplot.
- 24/05/2019
- Added the moon scheme by Paul Naylor.
- 15/01/2019
- Updated the cmocean collection to version 2.0, with four new maps: topo, rain, tarn and diff.
- 20/12/2018
- Added the cividis colour-maps by Nuñez, Anderton and Renslow.
- 18/07/2016
- Added the cmocean palettes by Kristen M. Thyng.
- 04/04/2016
- Gradients are now available in the QGIS style format (qgs) and the PostGIS format (pg) — it should also be possible to use the latter in the GDAL program gdaldem, the GRASS r.colors utility and in ESRI products which call for a HDR color table.
- 02/03/2016
- Added Christopher Wesson's Western Arabia Terra ramp.
- Added the matplotlib perceptually uniform sequential colour-maps.
- 23/09/2015
- Updated the GMT gradients.
- 02/07/2015
- Added the Wikipedia gay flag schemes.
- 18/02/2015
- Added the Statistik Stadt Zürich schemes.
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