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Palettable 3.0 Released

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I’m happy to announce the release of Palettable version 3.0. Palettable is a Python library that packages a variety of color palettes for use with matplotlib or really anywhere. Here’s the full diff since the last release.

This release includes a number of new palettes:

The new cmocean, matplotlib, and MyCarta palettes are created from data that contains 256 color points per palette. By default palettes are created with lengths 3-20 colors, but you can request longer ones via the get_map function. For example, to get the matplotlib Viridis palette with 200 color points:

In [2]: palettable.matplotlib.get_map('Viridis_200')

You can find Palettable on the web at:

P.S.: Here’s a little demo notebook.

Palettable 3.0 Released

Introducing Palettable

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I wrote brewer2mpl a couple years ago to help people use colorbrewer2 color palettes in Python. Since then it’s expanded to include palettes from Tableau and the whimsical Wes Anderson Palettes Tumblr; and there’s plenty of room for more palettes from other sources. To encompass the growing scope, brewer2mpl has been renamed to Palettable! (Thanks to Paul Ivanov for the name.)

The Palettable API has also been updated for the IPython age. All available palettes are now loaded at import and are available for your tab-completion pleasure. Need the YlGnBu palette with nine colors? That’s now available at palettable.colorbrewer.sequential.YlGnBu_9. Reversed palettes are also available with a _r suffix.

I hope you find Palettable useful! You can find it on the web at:

P.S.: Here’s a little demo notebook.

Introducing Palettable