Colorbrewer for color schemes
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Colorbrewer was designed for cartography, but is useful for figure color schemes and look up tables (LUTs). The web interface is slick, offers an immediate preview, and the look up table can be exported. Colorblind-safe and print-safe options can be designed.
The brewer colorschemes are also available conveniently packaged up for matlab: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/45208-colorbrewer–attractive-and-distinctive-colormaps
And of course also for python 🙂
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/brewer2mpl/1.4