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Re: specialized color tables [message #63273 is a reply to message #63272]

Tue, 04 November 2008 11:25

David Fanning
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Mark writes:

> I've worked on this a bit and I've found that its hard to come up with
> 6-8 distinct colors which have 6-8 distinct shades. I was wondering
> if anyone knew of such a color set that accomplishes this. The Brewer
> color tables do this pretty well for 3-4 colors, but I'm going to
> require more base colors than that.....

I've displayed some Brewer color tables with 16
shades in this article:

http://www.dfanning.com/color_tips/brewer.html

I think if you do the same thing with 8 colors
(instead of the 16 I used), you might have 8
fairly distinct colors.

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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