Diverging Color Schemes
Diverging schemes allow the emphasis of a quantitative data display to
be progressions outward from a critical midpoint of the data range. A typical
diverging scheme pairs sequential schemes based on two different hues so
that they diverge from a shared light color, for the critical midpoint,
toward dark colors of different hues at each extreme. Deviations above
and below the median death rate from a disease, for example, are well represented
by a diverging color scheme.
Diverging Color Examples
Diverging Color Schemes: Munsell Charts
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