Hypsometric tints
Hypsometric tinting is a technique of showing elevation, related to contour lines. Bands of color between lines of equal elevation are colored, usually in a graduated color scheme.
Conventional color schemes for hypsometric tints begin with dark greens at low elevations, progressing through yellows and ochers, to browns and then grays and white at the highest elevations. Hypsometric tinting in maps is often accompanied by bathymetric tinting in oceans, which indicates depths using a similar method
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