Change the default color scheme away from Turbo?

[yurivish]

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.

[Fil]

ref. #352

(just note that I'm actively working on this)

[jonhelfman]

Thank you for working on this Fil.
If it is helpful, I made a notebook that plots the brightness linearity of each D3 colormap https://observablehq.com/@jonhelfman/colormap-brightness
For white backgrounds, there is a trade off between total brightness range and contrast with white.
Inferno has a great range, but its lightest color has poor contrast with white.
Viridis has almost as large a range, but its lightest color has better contrast with white.
Cool has a smaller brightness range than Viridis, but its lightest color has even better contrast with white.
The Cool colors also have excellent contrast with black, which is useful for charts with black backgrounds.
Here is a notebook that compares the colormaps and their contrast with white:
https://observablehq.com/@jonhelfman/color-contrast

[Fil]

Cross-ref: d3/d3-scale-chromatic#27