Community guidelines

CMasher is an open-source and free-to-use software package (and it always will be), provided under the BSD-3 license given below.

Users are highly encouraged to make contributions to the package or request new features by opening a GitHub issue. As with contributions, if you find a problem or issue with CMasher, please do not hesitate to open a GitHub issue about it.

If you use CMasher for your work, then please star the repo, such that I can keep track of how many users it has and more easily raise awareness of bad colormaps. Additionally, if you use CMasher as part of your workflow in a scientific publication, please consider including an acknowledgement like “Parts of the results in this work make use of the colormaps in the CMasher package.” and citing the CMasher paper using the BibTeX-entry further below.

License

BSD 3-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2019-2021, Ellert van der Velden
All rights reserved.

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Citation

This BibTeX-entry is also available in CMasher using get_bibtex().

@ARTICLE{2020JOSS....5.2004V,
       author = {{van der Velden}, Ellert},
        title = "{CMasher: Scientific colormaps for making accessible, informative and 'cmashing' plots}",
      journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
     keywords = {Python, science, colormaps, data visualization, plotting,
         Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing,
         Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability},
         year = 2020,
        month = feb,
       volume = {5},
       number = {46},
          eid = {2004},
        pages = {2004},
          doi = {10.21105/joss.02004},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2003.01069},
 primaryClass = {eess.IV},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JOSS....5.2004V},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}