For a very long time the leading repository on my github was "leaflet-grayscale" with a hundred stars.
I love @leaflet and made too many plugins for it. This one was quite simple — but I guess useful enough.
It just makes the map grayscale.
There are too few layers fit for a visualization background. Sometimes removing colors (and labels if possible) is good enough.
@zverik @leaflet Yes! TIGERMap uses greyscale carto. Thankfully maplibre has a color saturation setting!