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by bagrow 1863 days ago
There's been a lot of movement in the past few years on colormaps informed by studies of human perception.

Viridis, now the matplotlib default, is quite popular:

* https://bids.github.io/colormap/

* https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/in...

Google recently introduced an improvement on the venerable "jet" colormap called Turbo: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-improved-rainbow-col...