tol matlab,Tol colors

The colors created by Paul Tol at SRON are good for publication-quality figures:

https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/

- distinct for all people, including color-blind readers

- distinct from black and white

- distinct on screen and paper

- still match well together

ptc6 calls up to 6 RGB colors.

use ptc12 if more colors are needed (up to 12).

Usage:

ptc6(n) % n is the number of distinct colors

(a light gray is added at n+1)

Example:

TOLC=ptc6(5)

plot(1:10,sin(1:10),'Color', TOLC(1,:))

hold on

plot(1:10,sin((1:10)+1),'Color', TOLC(2,:))

...

To visualize each scheme of color selected, add 'check' to the function:

ptc6(3, 'check') % displays the 3 colors on a figure