I have been looking for a colour palette that looks great both in a colour version and a printed version. More and more journals accept articles to have figures with colours, but some of them still do not.

I used to use the palette from this website: a colour-blind and print-friendly. It worked very well when I used it for three colours. But I realised that more than five colours from this palette do not work so well in a grey scale. So, I started creating a palette myself and after spending “some” hours, I finally got a satisfied my version of the colour palette.

  • Colour version
  • Printed version
  • HEX format: #08306B, #238B45, #FD8D3C, #D4B9DA, #FFEDA0

Please feel free to use it if you like!

I got this idea from Vladimir Canudas-Romo and also received several suggestions from my friends, Ilya (@ikashnitsky) and Tim(@timriffe1). Thanks!!