WordCloud Style Guide

A visual guide to available color palettes

Every preset colormap you can use with WordCloud in Python for your perusing — because sometimes the right color makes all the difference.

Above from left to right: Wisteria, Wisteris_r, Reds, Reds_r

Above from left to right: OrRd, OrRd_y, Oranges, Oranges_r

Above from left to right: afmhot, afmhot_r, autum, autum_r

Above from left to right: YlOrBr, YlOrBr_r, YlOrRd, YlOrRd_r

Above from left to right: Purples, Purples_r, BuPu, PuPu_r

Above from left to right: RdPu, RdPu_r, PuRd, PuRd_r

Above from left to right: PuPr, PuOr_r, RdGy, RdGy_r

Above left to right: gnuplot2_r, gnuplot_r, gnuplot, gnuplot2

Above left to right: PRGn, PRGn_r, PiYG, PiYG_r

Above left to right: Greens, Greens_r, YiGn_r, YiGn

Above left to right: Blues, Blues_r, YiGnBu, YiGnBu_r

Above left to right: PuBuGn, PuBuGn_r, PuBu_r, PuBu

Above left to right: GnBu, GnBu_r, RdBu, RdBu_r

Above left to right: BrBG, BrBG_r, BuGn, BuGn_r

Above left to right: gist_yang, gist_yan_r, gist_gray, gist_gray_r

Above left to right: gist_heat, gist_heat_r, gist_stern, gist_stern_r

Above left to right: gist_earth, gist_earth_r, cubehelix, cubehelix_r

Above left to right: gist_ncar, gist_ncar_r, gist_rainbow, gist_rainbow_r

Above left to right: copper, copper_r, flay, flag_r

Above left to right: cool, cool_r, coolwarm, coolwarm_r

Above left to right: Dark2, Dark2_r, Paired, Paired_r

Above left to right: Accent, Accent_r, CMRmap, CMRmap_r

Above left to right: Pastel1, Pastel1_r, Pastel2, Pastel2_r

Above left to right: RdYrBu, RdYlBu_r, RdYlGn, RdYlGn_r

Above left to right: Set1, Set1_r, Set2, Set2_r

Above left to right: Set3, Set3_r, Spectral, Spectral_r

Above left to right: cividis, civdis_r, Greys, Greys_r

Above left to right: bwr, bwr_r, brg, brg_r

Above left to right: bone, bone_r, binary, binary_r

Above left to right: winter_r, winter, viridis_r, virdis

Above left to right: twilight_shifted_r, twilight, twilight_r, twilight_shifted

Above left to right: terrian_r, terrian, tab20, tabb_r

Above left to right: tab20c_r, tab20c, tab20_r, tab20b

Above left to right: tab10, tab10_r, summer, summer_r

Above left to right: spring, spring_r, seismic, seismic_r

Above left to right: rainbow, rainbow_r, prism, prism_r

Above left to right: plasma, plasma_r, pink, pink_r

Above left to right: ocean, ocean_r, ripy_spectral, ripy_spectral_r

Above left to right: magma, magma_r, jet, jet_r

Above left to right: inferno, inferno_r, hsv, hsv_r

Above left to right: hot, hot_r, gray, gray_r

In case you are unsure how to adjust the colormap check out this code example below:

Happy visualizing!