Color Palette File and Color Map Resource Links

Here are some links to useful websites of resources that will be of interest to users of the 'CPT Designer': a great program for creating, designing, editing, configuring, and visualizing .cpt Color Palette files. All links open in a new browser-page. If you know of any other sites that should be included here, or notice any dead links, please Contact Me.

soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city	A huge archive of Color Palette Files and Colour Gradients for Cartography, Technical Illustration and Design.
colorbrewer2.org	Color advice for cartography. A diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes.
web.natur.cuni.cz/~langhamr/lectures/vtfg1/mapinfo_2/barvy/colors.html	Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization.
carto.com/help/tutorials/map-styling	Tutorials on the Use of Color in Map Design.
www.futurelearn.com/courses/maps-geospatial-revolution/0/steps/30211	Choosing Color Schemes - Match Colors To Your Data.
coolors.co	The Super Fast Color Schemes Generator.
www.reliefshading.com/colours/hypsometric	Hypsometric Colour choice for Relief Shading.
www.shadedrelief.com/hypso/hypso.html	Using Cross-blended Hypsometric Tints for Generalized Environmental Mapping.
morphocode.com/the-use-of-color-in-maps	The use of Color in Maps and Data Visualizations.
blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2014/10/01/colors-for-heat-maps.html	How To Choose Colors for Maps and Heat Maps.
peterkovesi.com/projects/colourmaps/index.html	Perceptually Uniform Colour Maps - Design and Download.
geog.uoregon.edu/datagraphics/color_scales.htm	Color Schemes Appropriate for Scientific Data Graphics.
grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Color_tables	Grass Color Tables.
www.colourlovers.com	A creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes, and patterns.
www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/shademax2.html	Color palettes and legends that simulate continuous change in color with elevation.
color.adobe.com/create	Adobe Color Harmony Theme Creators.
www.colorbox.io	ColorBox Gradient Creation Tools.
blog.graphiq.com/finding-the-right-color-palettes-for-data-visualizations	Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures	Subtleties of Color for Data Visualization.
developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/guide/esri-color-ramps	A range of Esri Color Ramps, including Colorblind Friendly Ramps.
arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03700.pdf	Good Colour Maps: How to Design Them - Peter Kovesi.
www.generic-mapping-tools.org	Generic Mapping Tools: an open source collection of software tools for processing and displaying xy and xyz datasets, including rasterisation, filtering and other image processing operations, and various kinds of map projections.
www.qgis.org/en/site	QGIS: A free and open source Geographic Information System. Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD.
grass.osgeo.org	The 'Geographic Resources Analysis Support System' is a geographic information system software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, producing graphics and maps, spatial and temporal modeling, and visualizing. It can handle raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data.
uk.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html	MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks which allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms.
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_information_systems_software	A list of other open-source and proprietary GIS software which involve the use of a combination of digital maps and georeferenced data.