On 2015/02/18 2:42 PM, Olga Botvinnik wrote: > FYI the notebook isn't working for me in IPython 2.2.0 > > I agree with Michael's sentiment that from a marketing perspective, a > matplotlib-only colormap is advantageous to maintain a consistent brand.
Provided we can find a good colormap for that purpose; right now the only sequential proposals are gray, YlGnBu, and Michael's new HCL. Aesthetically, I find boring old YlGnBu the most pleasant of this small set. I agree with Michael's point that its yellow end might be lighter than optimum. To me, the HCL map is not downright ugly, but its definitely not appealing, either. My guess is that the prevalence of blues and greens in nature makes it easier for many people, myself included, to react favorably to large expanses of those colors for long periods of time. > > Will these colormaps also be used for non-imshow/colormesh/pcolormesh > data, as in for line colors as well? I think that's a great idea! It'll > make the black and white versions easier to understand since the > changing colors will monotonically increase/decrease in darkness rather > than randomly changing. I think that the line color cycling default should not match the default colormap at all; instead, it is in the "categorical" category, with visual ordering being secondary. All colors should be highly visible and distinguishable whether on a computer screen, paper, or projected by a poor projector in an overly lit room. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
