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CMasher: Scientific colormaps for making accessible, informative and 'cmashing' plots

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arxiv 2003.01069 v1 pith:4KQHNDEN submitted 2020-02-26 eess.IV physics.data-an

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CMasher is a Python package that provides a curated collection of scientific colormaps, showcased in the online documentation (https://cmasher.readthedocs.io). The colormaps in CMasher are all designed to be perceptually uniform sequential using the 'viscm' package; most of them are color-vision deficiency friendly; and they cover a wide range of different color combinations to accommodate for most applications. It aims to provide several alternatives to commonly used colormaps, like 'chroma' and 'rainforest' for 'jet'; 'sunburst' for 'hot'; 'neutral' for 'binary'; and 'fusion' and 'redshift' for 'coolwarm'. With CMasher, I hope to help others with picking the correct colormap for the job.

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