Colors#

Matplotlib has support for visualizing information with a wide array of colors and colormaps. These tutorials cover the basics of how these colormaps look, how you can create your own, and how you can customize colormaps for your use case.

For even more information see the examples page.

Specifying colors

Specifying colors

Customized Colorbars Tutorial

Customized Colorbars Tutorial

Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib

Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib

Colormap normalization

Colormap normalization

Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib

Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib