# Magenta

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/carto.Magenta
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: carto
Attribution: CARTOColors (Carto), https://carto.com/carto-colors/
License: CC-BY-4.0
Source: https://carto.com/carto-colors/
Tags: cartocolors, quantitative
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

CARTOColors 'Magenta' (7-class anchor stops, tag: quantitative).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.879 → 0.393 (range 0.486, min 0.393, max 0.879); monotonic; midpoint 0.649
- Chroma: min 0.046, max 0.151, mean 0.120
- Hue: 4.6° → 330.6° (span 34.0°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: red, rose
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 54.6, mean/step 0.214, max step 0.245, smoothness 0.949, speed 0.214

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 53.1; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 51.1; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 52.5; preserves order: yes

## Related

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