Greens
ColorBrewer 2.0 (Brewer & Harrower)
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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
Greens is a single-hue sequential scheme from ColorBrewer, Cynthia Brewer and Mark Harrower's palette system published at Penn State in 2002. Brewer's aim was to give mapmakers schemes chosen by perceptual testing rather than by taste, with explicit notes on which ones stay readable in print, on projectors, and under color vision deficiency. The single-hue ramps are the conservative end of that catalog: they vary lightness and saturation while holding hue steady, so the ordering is unambiguous.
When to use it
Greens carries an obvious semantic hint, so it is the natural choice for vegetation, land cover, canopy, agricultural yield, or anything else the reader already associates with growing things. Treat that association as a constraint rather than a bonus — using it for an unrelated variable invites a misread. It is a light-touch palette that layers comfortably over a pale basemap, and like the other ColorBrewer single-hue ramps it holds its ordering under all three CVD types.
License
Apache-style ColorBrewer License (attribution required) · source
The color specification carries this license, which is separate from the MIT license on this site. See attribution.