ColorBrewer.org: An online tool for selecting colour schemes for maps

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-37

  Harrower, Mark ^a   Brewer, Cynthia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COLOR; MAPPING; SOFTWARE; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 0041813144     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000870403235002042     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Bertin, J. (1983). Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
2. Brewer, C. A. (1989). 'The Development of Process-Printed Munsell Charts for Selecting Map Colours', The American Cartographer, 16, 269-78.
3. Brewer, C. A. (1997). 'Evaluation of a Model for Predicting Simultaneous Contrast on Colour Maps', The Professional Geographer, 49, 280-94.
4. Brewer, C. A. and Suchan, T. A. (2001). Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity, Census Special Report, Series CENSR/01-1, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 108 pp.
5. Devesa, S. S., Grauman, D. J., Pennello, G. A., Hoover, R. N. and Fraumeni, J. F. (1999). Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-1994, NIH Publication No. 99-4564367, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, 367 pp.
6. Hearn, D. and Baker, M. P. (1986). Computer Graphics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
7. MacEachren, A. M. (1994). Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design, Association of American Geographers, Washington DC.
8. MacEachren, A. M. (1995). How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design, Guilford, New York.
9. Muller, J.-C. (1976). 'Number of Classes and Choropleth Pattern Characteristics', The American Cartographer, 3, 169-76.
10. Olson, J. M. (1987). 'Colour and the Computer in Cartography', in Colour and the Computer, ed. by Durrett, H. J., pp. 205-19, Academic Press, Boston.
11. Olson, J. M. and Brewer, C. A. (1997). 'An Evaluation of Colour Selections to Accommodate Map Users With Colour Vision Impairments', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87, 103-34.
12. Olson, J. M. (2001). 'Strategies for Map Colour Selection in the Age of GIS', Proceedings 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY. 27 Feb-3 Mar 2001, 713 pp.
13. Pickle, L. W., Mungiole, M., Jones, G. K. and White, A. A. (1996). Atlas of United States Mortality, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD.
14. Slocum, T. A. (1999). Thematic Cartography and Visualization, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.