Archive of resources from Cindy Brewer's home page...

snippet of atlas cover

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.

orange gates photo

3.  "Dressing for the Gates" poster by Cindy (8x21")

mini ColorBrewer

4. PSU press releases about ColorBrewer: first and second.

Color use guidelines for mapping and visualization:
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Presentation at ASA 1999 meeting
6. Figures from Visualization in Modern Cartography chapter

color scheme

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.

segment of aspect and slope image

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).

mortaility choropleth map segment


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

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