Thursday, October 16, 2014

Please stop using colormaps which don't translate well to grayscale

I recently printed a paper with very nice results in B&W but the color images simply did not make sense when printed in grayscale (here is the paper if you are curious). Why? Not the best choice of colormap. Jake Vanderplas reminded me of this issue with his very nice blog post.

Please don't choose colormaps for the images in your paper which do not translate well when printed in grayscale.

Check out Nature's advice on color coding. Also check out the advice here.

Feel free to suggest other useful references about this issue in the comments.

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