Choosing what colours to use for your plotting purposes is not always straightforward. Although most programs give you reasonable defaults for doing your day-to-day plots, perhaps you’d fancy a bit more style for your plots that will be published. Indeed, I often simply use gnuplot, matplotlib or the native plotting routines in R or matlab for doing my first visualizations. But for publications, I often switch to pgfplots, an excellent package built on top of TikZ which are implemented as LaTeX packages. Continue reading Using ColorBrewer in TikZ and pgfplots →