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Can you suggest an ideal color scale for a digital elevation map to be printed in a scientific paper? Is it possible to have a color scale that looks good in color and in black and white?

April 26, 2017color digital ELEVATION map paper printed scale scientific

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Can you suggest an ideal color scale for a digital elevation map to be printed in a scientific paper? Is it possible to have a color scale that looks good in color and in black and white?

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I’d suggest you check out the information at colorbrewer.org. It is based on good perceptual studies and should help with your needs. What you need is a scale that is monotonic in luminance/lightness so that the information is preserved in black and white images.