# SunsetDark

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

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

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

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.910 → 0.419 (range 0.491, min 0.419, max 0.910); monotonic; midpoint 0.637
- Chroma: min 0.090, max 0.203, mean 0.162
- Hue: 86.2° → 334.3° (span 111.9°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: yellow, orange, red, rose
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 79.3, mean/step 0.311, max step 0.515, smoothness 0.661, speed 0.311

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 69.6; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 64.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 60.8; preserves order: yes

## Related

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