Matlab (somewhat) recently ditched jet as the default colourmap in favour of Parula. https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/13/a-new-colormap-for-matlab-par

Matlab (somewhat) recently ditched jet as the default colourmap in favour of Parula. https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/13/a-new-colormap-for-matlab-part-1-introduction/ https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2014/10/13/a-new-colormap-... Since most folks (typically students) simply use the default this should help end the tyranny of jet. I do still like jet for on screen visualisation, the extra contrast can be useful.