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Colour standing for height.
Also known as: Elevation tint, Layer tinting, Hypsometric colouring
The convention colouring a map by elevation band.
Colours a map by elevation band between contours.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
The green-to-brown convention is read by many as vegetation rather than height, so a green desert basin is routinely mistaken for fertile land — a misreading the convention actively invites.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Requires its legend to be read, because the band boundaries differ between maps and no colour has a fixed elevation.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Bands of colour between contour lines, conventionally running green through yellow and brown to white with increasing elevation.