observablehq / observablehq/plot
Change the default color scheme away from Turbo?
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Would it be within the realm of possibility to consider a change to the default Plot color scheme?
I often change the setting away from Turbo just so that I can easily tell apart the high-value colors from the low-value colors. With Turbo my eye jumps all over the place and I never remember what counts as "darker". Here's a plot using Turbo:

Here's the same image, this time with a "bupu" scheme:

This example came from https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/building-a-better-beeswarm where there are lots of circles of varying sizes next to each other and you want to be able to quickly tell which were placed earlier/later.
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