Many color names are defined in JMSL. You can follow this link to a defined set of color names and RGB values beyond the fields already provided in the Java java.awt.Color class. The color name/ RGB Value associations are consistent with HTML4 color designations. All class attributes that have a method to set color (i.e. line, marker, fill, …) and take a string argument use the AbstractChartNode.parseColor(string) method. Therefore the color associations in color names and RGB values are used.

Colormaps are mappings from [0,1] to colors. They are a one-dimensional parameterized path through the color cube. For an example of their use, see Heatmap.

A number of colormaps are predefined in the Colormap class. It is also possible to create new custom colormaps.

The predefined colormaps are listed in the table below.