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wide-viridis\n\nA colormap inspired by [matplotlib's viridis](https://matplotlib.org/users/colormaps.html),\nbut with a wider luminance range (i.e. starting at near black).\n\n|                  | Full color                             | Grayscale                              |\n| ---------------- | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |\n| **Wide Viridis** | ![](images/fullcolor_wide-viridis.png) | ![](images/grayscale_wide-viridis.png) |\n| **Viridis**      | ![](images/fullcolor_viridis.png)      | ![](images/grayscale_viridis.png)      |\n\nViridis is a popular choice among Matplotlib's perceptually uniform color maps\n(which also include also Magma, Inferno and Plasma)\nbut, like Plasma, it doesn't start at black, which may be undesirable in some cases.\n\nAfter unsuccessful searches for existing Viridis variants with this property,\nI took it upon myself to build such a colormap.\nI installed [viscm](https://github.com/matplotlib/viscm) 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