Colorbar

A Colorbar needs a colormap and a tuple of low/high limits. The colormap's axis will then span from low to high along the visual representation of the colormap. You can set ticks in a similar way to Axis.

Here's how you can create Colorbars manually.

using CairoMakie

fig = Figure()

Axis(fig[1, 1])

# vertical colorbars
Colorbar(fig[1, 2], limits = (0, 10), colormap = :viridis,
    flipaxis = false)
Colorbar(fig[1, 3], limits = (0, 5),
    colormap = cgrad(:Spectral, 5, categorical = true), size = 25)
Colorbar(fig[1, 4], limits = (-1, 1), colormap = :heat,
    highclip = :cyan, lowclip = :red, label = "Temperature")

# horizontal colorbars
Colorbar(fig[2, 1], limits = (0, 10), colormap = :viridis,
    vertical = false)
Colorbar(fig[3, 1], limits = (0, 5), size = 25,
    colormap = cgrad(:Spectral, 5, categorical = true), vertical = false)
Colorbar(fig[4, 1], limits = (-1, 1), colormap = :heat,
    label = "Temperature", vertical = false, flipaxis = false,
    highclip = :cyan, lowclip = :red)

fig

If you pass a plotobject, a heatmap or contourf, the Colorbar is set up automatically such that it tracks these objects' relevant attributes like colormap, colorrange, highclip and lowclip. If you want to adjust these attributes afterwards, change them in the plot object, otherwise the Colorbar and the plot object will go out of sync.

using CairoMakie

xs = LinRange(0, 20, 50)
ys = LinRange(0, 15, 50)
zs = [cos(x) * sin(y) for x in xs, y in ys]

fig = Figure()

ax, hm = heatmap(fig[1, 1][1, 1], xs, ys, zs)
Colorbar(fig[1, 1][1, 2], hm)

ax, hm = heatmap(fig[1, 2][1, 1], xs, ys, zs, colormap = :grays,
    colorrange = (-0.75, 0.75), highclip = :red, lowclip = :blue)
Colorbar(fig[1, 2][1, 2], hm)

ax, hm = contourf(fig[2, 1][1, 1], xs, ys, zs,
    levels = -1:0.25:1, colormap = :heat)
Colorbar(fig[2, 1][1, 2], hm, ticks = -1:0.25:1)

ax, hm = contourf(fig[2, 2][1, 1], xs, ys, zs,
    colormap = :Spectral, levels = [-1, -0.5, -0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1])
Colorbar(fig[2, 2][1, 2], hm, ticks = -1:0.25:1)

fig

Experimental Categorical support

Warning

This feature might change outside breaking releases, since the API is not yet finalized

You can create a true categorical map with good default ticks, by wrapping a colormap into Makie.Categorical(cmap):

fig, ax, pl = barplot(1:3; color=1:3, colormap=Makie.Categorical(:viridis))
Colorbar(fig[1, 2], pl)
fig

We can't use cgrad(...; categorical=true) for this, since it has an ambigious meaning for true categorical values.

These docs were autogenerated using Makie: v0.20.9, GLMakie: v0.9.10, CairoMakie: v0.11.10, WGLMakie: v0.9.9