# Pastel

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/carto.Pastel
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

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

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

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.768 → 0.767 (range 0.137, min 0.732, max 0.869); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.787
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.149, mean 0.105
- Hue: 201.8° → 0.0° (span 360.0°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: cyan, yellow, orange, magenta, green, blue, rose, chartreuse, mint
- Endpoint temperature: cool → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 420.1, mean/step 38.193, max step 63.558, smoothness 0.613, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 341.0; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 328.6; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 293.3; preserves order: no

## Related

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