# Bold

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/carto.Bold
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
Collection: carto
Attribution: CARTOColors (Carto), https://carto.com/carto-colors/
License: CC-BY-4.0
Source: https://carto.com/carto-colors/
Tags: cartocolors, qualitative
Stops: 12

## Summary

Bold is a categorical colormap from the carto collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

CARTOColors 'Bold' (11-class anchor stops, tag: qualitative).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.477 → 0.729 (range 0.364, min 0.447, max 0.811); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.727
- Chroma: min 0.025, max 0.228, mean 0.140
- Hue: 320.4° → 120.3° (span 360.0°), path folded; quadrants: magenta, mint, blue, yellow, red, green, cyan, rose, violet
- Endpoint temperature: cool → neutral
- Perceptual ΔE: total 543.2, mean/step 49.382, max step 71.010, smoothness 0.788, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 421.7; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 371.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 481.8; preserves order: no

## Related

- Family: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/families/carto
- All colormaps: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps