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CARTOColors

CARTOColors are a set of custom color palettes built on top of well-known standards for color use on maps, with next generation enhancements for the web and CARTO basemaps. Choose from a selection of sequential, diverging, or qualitative schemes for your next CARTO powered visualization.

This repo provides resources to use CARTOColors as a node module inspired by https://github.com/saikocat/colorbrewer.

Resources

• Color by Data: Introducing CARTOColors
• CARTOColors landing page
• CARTOColor Scheme Names

Availability in other languages

• Python: Palletable
• R: rcartocolor

Licensing

CARTOColors are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Credits/Additional Information

• CARTOColors as a node module inspired by https://github.com/saikocat/colorbrewer
• In the file cartocolor.js, you will find CARTOColor schemes tagged as sequential, diverging, and qualititative and their unique scheme name.
• In addition to CARTOColors, cartocolor.js includes ColorBrewer schemes that are available for use in CARTO Builder. You can find those definitions here.
• CARTOColors includes a color-blind friendly qualitative scheme named Safe we included this scheme based on the research and recommendations of Paul Tol.