Archive of resources from Cindy Brewer's home
page...
1. Mapping Census
2000: The
Geography of U.S. Diversity with
Trudy Suchan, U.S. Census Bureau. In
addition to .PDF files
for atlas pages, .AI files from printing the atlas and data tables are
also online at the above Census link.
ESRI's reprint of the Census atlas may be ordered online (also on Amazon).
2. CMYK color specifications
for Census atlas maps
(Tables
only
version). Geoff
Hatchard's research, as an MSc student, shows these schemes all work well for
colorblind readers.

3. "Dressing
for the Gates"
poster by Cindy (8x21")
4. PSU
press releases about ColorBrewer: first
and second.
Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization:
5.
Presentation at ASA 1999
meeting
6.
Figures from Visualization
in Modern
Cartography chapter

7. Guidelines for
selecting hue pairs
for diverging schemes , Figures from Cartographic
Journal article.
8.
Color Representation of
Aspect and
Slope Simultaneously , Proceedings paper with
additional figures, Auto Carto 11.

Epidemiological mapping (with Linda Pickle):
9.
CDC mortality atlas with maps designed to be read by colorblind;
related PSU press release .
10. Annals article
on
classing epidemiological maps in series (6MB
PDF ) and supporting
web site with maps, data, and test questions used
(Note: I'm
still checking and editing the maps on this site, so don't do anything
serious with them quite yet).

Go back to Cindy's page
or PSU Geography or GeoVISTA