Divergent color palettes
Multi-hue color palettes for divergent data
Reference the color overview for additional palettes to encode data differently.
Use divergent to encode continuous data with meaningful opposing extremes and a midpoint in between for the purpose of identifying patterns.
Examples are:
- Good/Bad
- Danger-Warning-Safe
- Red-Amber-Green
- Hot-Medium-Cold
- Full/Empty
- etc.
There are several small and large diverging color palettes. Use large diverging color palettes for data sets with more than 6 classes:
- Choropleth map
- Heatmap
- Semi dial gauge
Use a subset or the full small diverging color palettes with up to 6 classes for:
- Arch gauge
- Arch speedometer
- Choropleth map
- Full dial gauge
- Heatmap
- Semi dial gauge
- Semi gauge
- Sparklines
- Stacked area graph, percentage
- Stacked bar chart, percentage
- Stacked column chart, percentage
- Waterfall chart
TIP: Use the individual colors of a small divergent palette as method for conditional formatting. Following visualization methods are suitable candidates:
- Arch gauge
- Bar chart
- Bubble plot
- Column chart
- Full dial gauge
- Semi dial gauge
- Semi gauge
- Sparklines
Last updated: Oct 2020
Red-amber-green palettes
Large red-amber-green
-
#97466C
Cadillac -
#E2F2B0
Caper -
#FFFED2
Cream
-
#C05E6E
Fuzzy wuzzy brown -
#BEE09A
Madang
-
#DD8B7F
My pink -
#93C994
Dark sea green
-
#EBBE93
Gold -
#6AAC89
Forest green
-
#F6E6B0
Med. champagne -
#558977
Cutty sark
Examples
Small red-amber-green
-
#DB4642
Valencia -
#27813E
Japanese laurel
-
#FF863D
Mango tango
-
#FFB646
Pastell orange
-
#FDE980
Yellow
-
#66CC66
Mantis
Examples
Last updated: Nov 2020
Red-neutral-green palettes
Small red-neutral-green
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#BD1513
Cornell red -
#66CC66
Mantis
-
#DB4642
Valencia -
#27813E
Japanese laurel
-
#FFAEAE
Cornflower lilac
-
#EBE8EA
White lilac
-
#BBE3B3
Fringy flower
Examples
Last updated: Nov 2020
Blue-neutral-red palettes
Large blue-neutral-red
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#3B6290
Astral -
#F8F9FA
Hint of red -
#6B496B
Eggplant
-
#5A88C1
Danube -
#F5E5D9
Provincial pink
-
#77AACE
Moonstone blue -
#E3BCAC
Just right
-
#9DC4DB
Regent St. Blue -
#C48C8B
Oriental pink
-
#DBE9F2
Link water -
#A35D74
Turkish rose
Examples
Small blue-neutral-red
-
#00428B
Congress blue -
#BD1513
Cornell red
-
#427FBA
Tufts blue -
#DB4642
Valencia
-
#8BAFD3
Polo blue -
#EA8986
Sweet pink
-
#CFD5D9
Zumthor
Examples
Last updated: Nov 2020
Purple-neutral-petrol palettes
Large purple-neutral-petrol
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#4F4681
Gigas -
#F8F9FA
Hint of red -
#173B31
Blue bayoux
-
#7962A4
Deluge -
#CFE9E5
Swans down
-
#9C93C0
Cold purple -
#92CBC1
Sinbad
-
#C1BBDA
Blue haze -
#52948F
Neptune
-
#E4DEED
Snuff -
#2A645E
Smalt blue
Examples
Last updated: Nov 2020