Matter
cmocean (Thyng et al. 2016) — matter
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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.
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Provenance
Matter runs pale gold through orange and crimson to a deep plum — cmocean's ramp for colored dissolved organic matter, and the warm counterpart to `dense`. Like the rest of the set it was built to be perceptually uniform and to survive grayscale printing (Thyng et al., 2016). MIT-licensed.
When to use it
A warm sequential ramp for maps that already spend their cool hues on water or basemap: sediment load, turbid inflow, dissolved organics, or any "how much stuff" measure. It sits between YlOrRd and magma in loudness — more restrained than inferno, more colorful than a single-hue ColorBrewer ramp. The plum top end reads clearly on both light and mid-tone basemaps.
License
MIT · source
The color specification carries this license, which is separate from the MIT license on this site. See attribution.