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Not too many authors think critically about their selection of color for their data graphics, I know I have been guilty of that. This article by Light and Bartlein (2004) is a good discussion of the issues, and they also have a nice color scheme resource.

If you use the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), I've attached some color tables below that can be used by GMT's makecpt program. If they aren't the ones that you want, they should serve as a guide for how to make them.