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Turbo Colourmap in Tableau

Turbo Colourmap in Tableau

I’m sure if you work in visualisation, it won’t be long before you hear of “Turbo”, a new colour map developed by Google AI. Colour is a big topic so if somebody comes up with a new combination of colours which improves on existing schemes it’s interesting to see how it can be used.

Turbo was developed based on principles of Viridis and Inferno (and some others) to be colour blind accessible and perceptually uniform. As you will read in the publication, it is supposed to be accessible by 99.997% of the population. As long as you can see colour (or print it in colour and not grey scale), you’ll be able to use and understand this colour palette unambiguously – at least so they say…

Now, there are already critical voices and while it looks like Turbo is certainly not perfect, it improves a lot over existing, similar colour schemes.

I wanted to play around with it in Tableau so below you’ll find the full palette for your Tableau preference file.

And this is how it looks in action:

<color-palette name="Turbo" type="ordered-diverging" >
<color>#30123B</color>
<color>#311542</color>
<color>#32184A</color>
<color>#341B51</color>
<color>#351E58</color>
<color>#36215F</color>
<color>#372365</color>
<color>#38266C</color>
<color>#392972</color>
<color>#3A2C79</color>
<color>#3B2F7F</color>
<color>#3C3285</color>
<color>#3C358B</color>
<color>#3D3791</color>
<color>#3E3A96</color>
<color>#3F3D9C</color>
<color>#4040A1</color>
<color>#4043A6</color>
<color>#4145AB</color>
<color>#4148B0</color>
<color>#424BB5</color>
<color>#434EBA</color>
<color>#4350BE</color>
<color>#4353C2</color>
<color>#4456C7</color>
<color>#4458CB</color>
<color>#455BCE</color>
<color>#455ED2</color>
<color>#4560D6</color>
<color>#4563D9</color>
<color>#4666DD</color>
<color>#4668E0</color>
<color>#466BE3</color>
<color>#466DE6</color>
<color>#4670E8</color>
<color>#4673EB</color>
<color>#4675ED</color>
<color>#4678F0</color>
<color>#467AF2</color>
<color>#467DF4</color>
<color>#467FF6</color>
<color>#4682F8</color>
<color>#4584F9</color>
<color>#4587FB</color>
<color>#4589FC</color>
<color>#448CFD</color>
<color>#438EFD</color>
<color>#4291FE</color>
<color>#4193FE</color>
<color>#4096FE</color>
<color>#3F98FE</color>
<color>#3E9BFE</color>
<color>#3C9DFD</color>
<color>#3BA0FC</color>
<color>#39A2FC</color>
<color>#38A5FB</color>
<color>#36A8F9</color>
<color>#34AAF8</color>
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<color>#31AFF5</color>
<color>#2FB1F3</color>
<color>#2DB4F1</color>
<color>#2BB6EF</color>
<color>#2AB9ED</color>
<color>#28BBEB</color>
<color>#26BDE9</color>
<color>#25C0E6</color>
<color>#23C2E4</color>
<color>#21C4E1</color>
<color>#20C6DF</color>
<color>#1EC9DC</color>
<color>#1DCBDA</color>
<color>#1CCDD7</color>
<color>#1BCFD4</color>
<color>#1AD1D2</color>
<color>#19D3CF</color>
<color>#18D5CC</color>
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<color>#17D9C7</color>
<color>#17DAC4</color>
<color>#17DCC2</color>
<color>#17DEBF</color>
<color>#18E0BD</color>
<color>#18E1BA</color>
<color>#19E3B8</color>
<color>#1AE4B6</color>
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<color>#1EE8AF</color>
<color>#20E9AC</color>
<color>#22EBA9</color>
<color>#24ECA6</color>
<color>#27EDA3</color>
<color>#29EEA0</color>
<color>#2CEF9D</color>
<color>#2FF09A</color>
<color>#32F197</color>
<color>#35F394</color>
<color>#38F491</color>
<color>#3BF48D</color>
<color>#3FF58A</color>
<color>#42F687</color>
<color>#46F783</color>
<color>#4AF880</color>
<color>#4DF97C</color>
<color>#51F979</color>
<color>#55FA76</color>
<color>#59FB72</color>
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<color>#61FC6C</color>
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<color>#7CFE56</color>
<color>#80FE53</color>
<color>#84FE50</color>
<color>#87FE4D</color>
<color>#8BFE4B</color>
<color>#8EFE48</color>
<color>#92FE46</color>
<color>#95FE44</color>
<color>#98FE42</color>
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<color>#A1FC3D</color>
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<color>#A9FB39</color>
<color>#ACFA37</color>
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<color>#BBF434</color>
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</color-palette>

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