I have updated the Brewer color tables that I posted last fall. The download includes MG_LOADCT and MG_XLOADCT, which are wrappers around LOADCT and XLOADCT that use the Brewer color tables instead of the default color tables.

The update fixes the qualitative color tables. These color tables are for labeling, so they contain 3 to 12 colors instead of a full set of 256 colors. The qualitative color tables each have multiple versions included, depending on how many colors are needed. For example, “Pastel1” has versions with 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 colors.

In total, there are 18 sequential, 9 diverging, and 58 qualitative color tables (of 8 different styles). The order of the tables (sequential first, then the diverging, and then ending with all the variations of the qualitative) was also changed to match the Brewer order instead of the previous alphabetical listing. Here’s a list of all the tables:

  1. YlGn (Sequential)
  2. YlGnBu (Sequential)
  3. GnBu (Sequential)
  4. BuGn (Sequential)
  5. PuBuGn (Sequential)
  6. PuBu (Sequential)
  7. BuPu (Sequential)
  8. RdPu (Sequential)
  9. PuRd (Sequential)
  10. OrRd (Sequential)
  11. YlOrRd (Sequential)
  12. YlOrBr (Sequential)
  13. Purples (Sequential)
  14. Blues (Sequential)
  15. Greens (Sequential)
  16. Oranges (Sequential)
  17. Reds (Sequential)
  18. Greys (Sequential)
  19. PuOr(Diverging)
  20. BrBG(Diverging)
  21. PRGn(Diverging)
  22. PiYG(Diverging)
  23. RdBu(Diverging)
  24. RdGy(Diverging)
  25. RdYlBu(Diverging)
  26. Spectral(Diverging)
  27. RdYlGn(Diverging)
  28. Set3 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  29. Set3 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  30. Set3 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  31. Set3 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  32. Set3 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  33. Set3 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  34. Set3 (Qualitative) – 9 colors
  35. Set3 (Qualitative) – 10 colors
  36. Set3 (Qualitative) – 11 colors
  37. Set3 (Qualitative) – 12 colors
  38. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  39. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  40. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  41. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  42. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  43. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  44. Pastel1 (Qualitative) – 9 colors
  45. Set1 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  46. Set1 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  47. Set1 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  48. Set1 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  49. Set1 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  50. Set1 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  51. Set1 (Qualitative) – 9 colors
  52. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  53. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  54. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  55. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  56. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  57. Pastel2 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  58. Set2 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  59. Set2 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  60. Set2 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  61. Set2 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  62. Set2 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  63. Set2 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  64. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  65. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  66. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  67. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  68. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  69. Dark2 (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  70. Paired (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  71. Paired (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  72. Paired (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  73. Paired (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  74. Paired (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  75. Paired (Qualitative) – 8 colors
  76. Paired (Qualitative) – 9 colors
  77. Paired (Qualitative) – 10 colors
  78. Paired (Qualitative) – 11 colors
  79. Paired (Qualitative) – 12 colors
  80. Accent (Qualitative) – 3 colors
  81. Accent (Qualitative) – 4 colors
  82. Accent (Qualitative) – 5 colors
  83. Accent (Qualitative) – 6 colors
  84. Accent (Qualitative) – 7 colors
  85. Accent (Qualitative) – 8 colors