Bamako
Crameri scientific colour maps (bamako)
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#00404d -
#13524a -
#2f6535 -
#5e7717 -
#998a06 -
#cfa72c -
#ffe599
On a map
A synthetic demo grid, classed with equal intervals — the point is the palette against real basemap ink, not the data. Switch themes to see how much basemap the palette leaves room for.
Metadata
Provenance
Bamako is one of Fabio Crameri's Scientific Colour Maps, the perceptually uniform suite he has published and versioned since 2018 as a corrective to rainbow colormaps that invent gradients the data does not contain. Crameri's papers showed that a non-uniform colormap can visually create boundaries and hide real ones, and the suite was built to be verifiably free of that — each map ships with lightness and CVD diagnostics. This entry follows v8 of the suite, archived on Zenodo under the MIT license.
When to use it
Bamako climbs from a dark teal through olive and ochre to pale straw, an earthy ramp that reads naturally for terrain, aridity, soil, and biomass. Like lapaz it is a good long-tail workhorse: the multi-hue path gives you separable steps well past the point where a single-hue ramp would flatten out. It is the warmer sibling — choose it when the map's other layers are cool, or when the subject matter calls for an earth-toned register.
License
MIT · source
The color specification carries this license, which is separate from the MIT license on this site. See attribution.