Plotly express ships with dozens of built-in color scales, independent from the matplotlib colormaps and seaborn palettes pages. Continuous scales (sequential, diverging, cyclical) go in the color_continuous_scale argument, while the discrete, qualitative ones go in color_discrete_sequence.
import plotly.express as px
df = px.data.iris()
fig = px.scatter(df, x = “sepal_width”, y = “sepal_length”,
color = “petal_length”,
color_continuous_scale = “Viridis”)
fig.show()
Click on any color scale below to copy its name. Cyclical scales are meant for periodic data (time of day, wind direction, angles), where the first and last color should match.
Sequential
Aggrnyl
color scale
Agsunset
color scale
Blackbody
color scale
Bluered
color scale
Blues
color scale
Blugrn
color scale
Bluyl
color scale
Brwnyl
color scale
BuGn
color scale
BuPu
color scale
Burg
color scale
Burgyl
color scale
Cividis
color scale
Darkmint
color scale
Electric
color scale
Emrld
color scale
GnBu
color scale
Greens
color scale
Greys
color scale
Hot
color scale
Inferno
color scale
Jet
color scale
Magenta
color scale
Magma
color scale
Mint
color scale
OrRd
color scale
Oranges
color scale
Oryel
color scale
Peach
color scale
Pinkyl
color scale
Plasma
color scale
Plotly3
color scale
PuBu
color scale
PuBuGn
color scale
PuRd
color scale
Purp
color scale
Purples
color scale
Purpor
color scale
Rainbow
color scale
RdBu
color scale
RdPu
color scale
Redor
color scale
Reds
color scale
Sunset
color scale
Sunsetdark
color scale
Teal
color scale
Tealgrn
color scale
Turbo
color scale
Viridis
color scale
YlGn
color scale
YlGnBu
color scale
YlOrBr
color scale
YlOrRd
color scale
Diverging
Armyrose
color scale
BrBG
color scale
Earth
color scale
Fall
color scale
Geyser
color scale
PRGn
color scale
PiYG
color scale
Picnic
color scale
Portland
color scale
PuOr
color scale
RdBu
color scale
RdGy
color scale
RdYlBu
color scale
RdYlGn
color scale
Spectral
color scale
Tealrose
color scale
Temps
color scale
Tropic
color scale
Cyclical
Edge
color scale
HSV
color scale
IceFire
color scale
Phase
color scale
Twilight
color scale
Qualitative
Alphabet
color scale
Antique
color scale
Bold
color scale
D3
color scale
Dark2
color scale
Dark24
color scale
G10
color scale
Light24
color scale
Pastel
color scale
Pastel1
color scale
Pastel2
color scale
Plotly
color scale
Prism
color scale
Safe
color scale
Set1
color scale
Set2
color scale
Set3
color scale
T10
color scale
Vivid
color scale
