Fabio Crameri’s Color Schemes

N. Frerebeau

2025-09-29

library(khroma)

1 Introduction

Crameri (2018) offers carefully chosen schemes, ready for mapping data, with colors that are:

All the scales presented in Crameri (2023) are implemented here, for use with base R graphics, ggplot2 and ggraph.

2 Diverging data

2.1 bam

bam <- color("bam")
plot(bam(256))
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2.2 berlin

berlin <- color("berlin")
plot(berlin(256))
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2.3 broc

broc <- color("broc")
plot(broc(256))
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2.4 cork

cork <- color("cork")
plot(cork(256))
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2.5 lisbon

lisbon <- color("lisbon")
plot(lisbon(256))
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2.6 managua

managua <- color("managua")
plot(managua(256))
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2.7 roma

roma <- color("roma")
plot(roma(256))
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2.8 tofino

tofino <- color("tofino")
plot(tofino(256))
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2.9 vanimo

vanimo <- color("vanimo")
plot(vanimo(256))
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2.10 vik

vik <- color("vik")
plot(vik(256))
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3 Sequential data

3.1 acton

acton <- color("acton")
plot(acton(256))
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3.2 bamako

bamako <- color("bamako")
plot(bamako(256))
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3.3 batlow

batlow <- color("batlow")
plot(batlow(256))
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3.4 batlowW

batlowW <- color("batlowW")
plot(batlowW(256))
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3.5 batlowK

batlowK <- color("batlowK")
plot(batlowK(256))
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3.6 bilbao

bilbao <- color("bilbao")
plot(bilbao(256))
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3.7 buda

buda <- color("buda")
plot(buda(256))
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3.8 davos

davos <- color("davos")
plot(davos(256))
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3.9 devon

devon <- color("devon")
plot(devon(256))
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3.10 glasgow

glasgow <- color("glasgow")
plot(glasgow(256))
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3.11 grayC

grayC <- color("grayC")
plot(grayC(256))
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3.12 hawaii

hawaii <- color("hawaii")
plot(hawaii(256))
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3.13 imola

imola <- color("imola")
plot(imola(256))
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3.14 lajolla

lajolla <- color("lajolla")
plot(lajolla(256))
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3.15 lapaz

lapaz <- color("lapaz")
plot(lapaz(256))
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3.16 lipari

lipari <- color("lipari")
plot(lipari(256))
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3.17 navia

navia <- color("navia")
plot(navia(256))
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3.18 naviaW

naviaW <- color("naviaW")
plot(naviaW(256))
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3.19 nuuk

nuuk <- color("nuuk")
plot(nuuk(256))
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3.20 oslo

oslo <- color("oslo")
plot(oslo(256))
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3.21 tokyo

tokyo <- color("tokyo")
plot(tokyo(256))
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3.22 turku

turku <- color("turku")
plot(turku(256))
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4 Multi-sequential data

4.1 bukavu

bukavu <- color("bukavu")
plot(bukavu(256))
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4.2 fes

fes <- color("fes")
plot(fes(256))
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4.3 oleron

oleron <- color("oleron")
plot(oleron(256))
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5 References

Crameri, F. 2018. “Geodynamic Diagnostics, Scientific Visualisation and StagLab 3.0.” Geoscientific Model Development 11 (6): 2541-2562. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-2541-2018.

Crameri, F. 2023. Scientific Colour Maps (version 8.0.1). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1243862.