External links
matplotlib - The venerable plotting package we all know and love.
- Package for working with annotated ND numpy arrays. If you haven’t heard of it and you work with NetCDF files, it will change your life.
pandas - Package that turns spreadsheets and tables into annotated 2D numpy arrays. Invaluable for certain types of data.
The following colormap repositories are imported and registered by ProPlot.
- The O.G. perceptually uniform colormap distribution. These are included with the matplotlib distribution.
cmocean - Perceptually uniform colormaps designed for oceanography, but suitable for plenty of other applications.
- Perceptually uniform colormaps for geosciences. These maps have very unusual and interesting color transitions.
Use these resources to make colormaps from scratch.