cividis

Some time ago I looked into this topic, and in my opinion the blog post misses two points: (1) Conversion to gray scale won't be good because the scale is not linear, which is important for printing, and (2) In Jet (and also, Turbo), high and low values of a measurement don't map well to colors. This is well described in the paper introducing cividis [1] (check out [2] for code). [1]: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1712/1712.01662.pdf [2]: https://github.com/marcosci/cividis

And yesterday a paper explaining the process of creating Cividis, an even more CVD friendly iteration, was published on plos.org[0]. It's already in Matplotlib, and available for R[1]. (I submitted it yesterday but it didn't get much traction[2], which makes sense given how specific it is) [0] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourna... [1] https://github.com/marcosci/cividis [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667572