You have probably noticed by now that I am big fan of colors in data visualisations and rather fond of custom color palettes.
This morning I saw a retweet by Megan Hunt of color palettes from famous paintings and I knew I had to get my hands on those hex codes…
I had a bit of a play and created the script for the Tableau preferences file so I can use these palettes in my visualisations if the mood strikes.
And so that you can save yourself a bit of time, here it is, in case you’d like to use it as well. Just insert into your preferences file, save, restart Tableau and they should all appear…
Note: I didn’t create all the palettes, because some had a very limited range of colors
Enjoy!
Script:
<color-palette name="Mona Lisa - Da Vinci" type="regular" > <color>#0f150e</color> <color>#c0b77d</color> <color>#7f7c4b</color> <color>#503e1e</color> <color>#eabe68</color> <color>#505431</color> <color>#826027</color> <color>#bc8939</color> <color>#a7943f</color> <color></color> <color></color> <color></color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The girl with the pearl earring - Vermeer" type="regular" > <color>#110f08</color> <color>#5b3719</color> <color>#99642a</color> <color>#3b1e12</color> <color>#d5a54b</color> <color>#798c7f</color> <color>#b46f1f</color> <color>#9c8b52</color> <color>#45565c</color> <color>#d4dcb0</color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The Rokeby Venus - Velazquez" type="regular" > <color>#3e2a22</color> <color>#c0a686</color> <color>#b3875c</color> <color>#541f1c</color> <color>#6c221d</color> <color>#902e2e</color> <color>#7c4c31</color> <color>#c6b8ae</color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The Scream - Munch" type="regular" > <color>#121e1a</color> <color>#4e4c30</color> <color>#8a7243</color> <color>#ef6e1e</color> <color>#eeac53</color> <color>#f73e06</color> <color>#ab6e34</color> <color>#e6c977</color> <color>#f69b2a</color> <color>#f8c33e</color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The Starry Night - Van Gogh" type="regular" > <color>#242d34</color> <color>#577491</color> <color>#7b94a4</color> <color>#3f547c</color> <color>#9bafaa</color> <color>#bbc5af</color> <color>#c4c697</color> <color>#d5bc6a</color> <color>#5f5e4b</color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai" type="regular" > <color>#a6a49b</color> <color>#e1c6a5</color> <color>#e7e2d2</color> <color>#8599a4</color> <color>#1f2950</color> <color>#4a5f79</color> <color>#3d403b</color> <color>#857d5d</color> <color>#bba76f</color> </color-palette> <color-palette name="The Third of May, 1808 in Madrid - Goya" type="regular" > <color>#3d2f1b</color> <color>#a48f4b</color> <color>#88886a</color> <color>#dcc395</color> <color>#66331e</color> <color>#a36b44</color> <color>#f1ddc7</color> <color>#dfb730</color> <color>#a94f50</color> <color>#b88343</color> </color-palette>