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All colormap data in this file are sourced from NCAR Command Language (NCL) Website: https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/color_tables.shtml
Zhaoxu Liu / slandarer (2026). 2000 palettes (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/126969-2000-palettes), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
All palettes come from the following 55 color packages:
'awtools'/'basetheme'/'beyonce'/'calecopal'/'colorBlindness'/'colorblindr'
'colRoz'/'dichromat'/'DresdenColor'/'dutchmasters'/'fishualize'/'futurevisions'
'ggpomological'/'ggprism'/'ggsci'/'ggthemes'/'ggthemr'/'ghibli'/'grDevices'
'IslamicArt'/'jcolors'/'khroma'/'LaCroixColoR'/'lisa'/'Manu'/'MapPalettes'
'miscpalettes'/'nationalparkcolors'/'nbapalettes'/'NineteenEightyR'/'nord'
'ochRe'/'palettesForR'/'palettetown'/'pals'/'PNWColors'/'Polychrome'
'rcartocolor'/'RColorBrewer'/'Redmonder'/'rockthemes'/'RSkittleBrewer'
'rtist'/'soilpalettes'/'suffrager'/'tayloRswift'/'tidyquant'/'trekcolors'
'tvthemes'/'unikn'/'vapeplot'/'vapoRwave'/'werpals'/'wesanderson'/'yarrr'
Crameri, Fabio. (2021). Scientific colour maps (7.0.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5501399
- setColormapPivot(n)
- setColormapPivot(ax,n)
imagesc(peaks(1000)+1)
colormap([pink;flipud(bone)])
colorbar
setColormapPivot(7)
Place anchor points at arbitrary numerical values with arbitrary proportions.
contourf(rand(10,10))
colormap([pink(11);flipud(bone(11))])
cb=colorbar;
setCMapRatio([8/22,10/22,20/22],[.2,.5,.8])
% Add non-equidistant / unequal-interval tick labels
cb.YTick = getCBTick(gca);
% Adjust colorbar tick length (this line can be deleted)
cb.TickLength = 0.061;
