d3.4.x_colorScales

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<style>
body {
  font: 12px sans-serif;
}
div {
  max-width: 800px;
}
</style>
<div class="container"></div>
<div class="categoricalButtons">Ordinal Color Scales: </div>

var categorical = [
  { "name" : "schemeAccent", "n": 8},
  { "name" : "schemeDark2", "n": 8},
  { "name" : "schemePastel2", "n": 8},
  { "name" : "schemeSet2", "n": 8},
  { "name" : "schemeSet1", "n": 9},
  { "name" : "schemePastel1", "n": 9},
  { "name" : "schemeCategory10", "n" : 10},
  { "name" : "schemeSet3", "n" : 12 },
  { "name" : "schemePaired", "n": 12},
  { "name" : "schemeCategory20", "n" : 20 },
  { "name" : "schemeCategory20b", "n" : 20},
  { "name" : "schemeCategory20c", "n" : 20 }
]

var width = 800,
    height = 100;

var svg = d3.select("body")
    .append("svg")
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height)
    .append("g")

var colorScale = d3.scaleOrdinal(d3[categorical[0].name])

var n = categorical[0].n,
    unit = width/n;

var sequentialButtons = d3.select(".categoricalButtons")
    .selectAll("button")
    .data(categorical)
    .enter().append("button")
    .text(function(d) { return d.name; })
    .on("click", function(buttonValue) {

var colorScale = d3.scaleOrdinal(d3[buttonValue.name]);

var bars = svg.selectAll(".bars")
          .data(d3.range(buttonValue.n), function(d) { return d; });

bars.exit()
          .remove();

bars.transition()
          .attr("x", function(d, i) { return i*(width/buttonValue.n); })
          .attr("width", width/buttonValue.n)
          .style("fill", function(d, i) { return colorScale(i); });

bars.enter().append("rect")
          .attr("class", "bars")
          .attr("y", 0)
          .attr("height", height)
          .attr("x", function(d, i) { return i*(width/buttonValue.n); })
          .attr("width", width/buttonValue.n)
          .style("fill", function(d, i) { return colorScale(i); });

});

</script>

https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js

https://d3js.org/d3-scale-chromatic.v0.3.min.js