Closed stevengj closed 2 years ago
Hi! Yes, in earlier releases I used to include figures with a bit more information:
but keeping the size of the swatch docs down became a consideration... And only a proportion of the colorschemes are for plotting purposes... It would be good to add some more information like the one you referenced.
Perhaps we could have a function perceptual_uniformity(cs::ColorScheme)
that returns some useful information - like a score for suitability?
Maybe just a section of the manual listing a subset of color schemes that are most suitable for visualization, like in Matplotlib's docs?
Matplotlib seems like it has finer-granulated versions of these, and they are nice to have as diverging colormaps for signed data.
I like the discussion in Matplotlib's manual here: https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/colors/colormaps.html — it would be nice to have something similar in the documentation, and in particular to highlight which colormaps are perceptually uniform and other nice properties.