Not sure where is the best place to ask this question but here it goes:

Through a malfunction of my pc screen I got a plot I'd made ages ago, using matlab but works fine in python as well, to go from your regular 'hot' colormap to something completely different as shown in the pic below:

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s9u59.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s9u59.png)

Top part is the original hot and bottom is the 'malfunction' going from dark blue to white-ish from bright pink

Does anyone know how to get that done intentionally?

As it turned out, I like that colour scheme much better, but not sure how/were to get it right.