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Cpt-city, an archive of colour gradients
by jjgreen·Mar 20, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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Twenty-year-old gradient archive, now with Rails instead of Perl.
Strengths
- •20+ years of curated gradients from scientific and artistic sources
- •Multiple export formats for cartography and technical illustration
- •Organized by author with detailed usage examples and applications
Weaknesses
- •It's a curated collection—no novel technique or interactive tooling
- •Modern alternatives like Coolors and Adobe Color offer generation features
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Target Audience
Cartographers, data visualization designers, GIS professionals
Similar To
Coolors · Adobe Color · ColorBrewer
Post Description
This site has been online since 2004, previously entirely static (generated by a Perl script). It outgrew that some years ago and I've finally got around to rewriting it in bleeding-edge Rails. Source available on GitLab.
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