I suggest turbo to lots of people who love jet and they find it a useful replacement for those cases where the distinctness of colours is helpful, e.g. noisy fi

I suggest turbo to lots of people who love jet and they find it a useful replacement for those cases where the distinctness of colours is helpful, e.g. noisy fields for which contours are too much of a mess to understand. As others have said, the choice of colour scheme depends on the application. And it can even make sense to use a distinctly suboptimal scheme, if the goal is to produce graphs that can be compared easily with existing works. For example, annual reports of datasets are a lot easier to compare if the changes to the colour scheme are avoided.