This is a little tool for analyzing colormaps and creating new colormaps.

Try:

$ pip install viscm
$ python -m viscm view jet
$ python -m viscm edit

There is some information available about how to interpret the resulting visualizations and use the editor tool on this website.

Downloads:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/viscm/
• https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/viscm/

Code and bug tracker:

https://github.com/matplotlib/viscm

Contact:

Nathaniel J. Smith <njs@pobox.com> and Stéfan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu>

Dependencies:

• Python 3.7+
• colorspacious
• Matplotlib
• NumPy

License:

MIT, see LICENSE for details.