[Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

[Brent Wood]

Have a look at cpt city: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/
While very much colour based, there is at least one grey scale palette. It does not support stipples or hatchings as far as I know. 
It does support downloading palettes in native FOSS GIS formats such as GMT & QGIS. 

QGIS also supports the native use of colour gradients from there, see:https://teamwork.niwa.co.nz/display/NQUG/Find+additional+colour+ramps

Cheers

Brent Wood
      From: Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>
 To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
 Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:24 PM
 Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication
   
Have a look at http://colorbrewer2.org

There you can check for grey-scale tones that are distinguishable and  
printer friendly, so you can set up a palette with those values.
The downside of grey scales is, that there are not so many different tones  
available as when working with colours.

Cheers



Am 11.11.2016, 18:26 Uhr, schrieb David Addy <david_addy at lineone.net>:

> Most of us prepare our maps using colours for different outlines or  
> different
> colour shades of fill for polygons. However, there are still occasions  
> where
> maps produced for publication in books or magazines will end up as  
> shades of
> grey  to save the cost of colour printing. This is certainly the case for
> most of the local history texts for which I am often asked to make maps.
> This can result in greys which are fairly indistinguishable from each  
> other,
> and traditionally this issue was approached by adding hatchings to the
> ‘colour’. This could end up as looking a mess and/or failing to  
> adequately
> highlight an area of highest activity in distribution maps.
> Has anybody got any experience of, or advice for,  successfully solving  
> the
> problem of making monochrome maps look more attractive and useful?
>
>
>
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