Have a look at http://colorbrewer2.org
There you can check for grey-scale tones that are distinguishable and
printer friendly, so you can set up a palette with those values.
The downside of grey scales is, that there are not so many different tones
available as when working with colours.
Cheers
Bernd
Am 11.11.2016, 18:26 Uhr, schrieb David Addy <david_a...@lineone.net>:
Most of us prepare our maps using colours for different outlines or
different
colour shades of fill for polygons. However, there are still occasions
where
maps produced for publication in books or magazines will end up as
shades of
grey to save the cost of colour printing. This is certainly the case for
most of the local history texts for which I am often asked to make maps.
This can result in greys which are fairly indistinguishable from each
other,
and traditionally this issue was approached by adding hatchings to the
‘colour’. This could end up as looking a mess and/or failing to
adequately
highlight an area of highest activity in distribution maps.
Has anybody got any experience of, or advice for, successfully solving
the
problem of making monochrome maps look more attractive and useful?
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