[Qgis-user] Spread of colors in Continuous Color

Carson Farmer carson.farmer at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 02:51:17 PST 2008


Agus,
> I don't quite understand the way colors are
> distributed among values between the
> color set for the min and the color
> set for the max value (Properties/Symbology/Continuous colors).
> I'm used to set the entire color ramp, not just the
> extreme colors.
>
> Also, does anyone have rules for Which couple of colors can be 
> selected for best
> results in different situations?

Check out colorbrewer:

http://www.colorbrewer.org/

http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.html

It's a fantastic resource!

Carson

>
> Thanks
>
> Agus


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