# Tropic

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

## Summary

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

CARTOColors 'Tropic' (7-class anchor stops, tag: diverging).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.625 → 0.633 (range 0.332, min 0.625, max 0.957); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.957
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.163, mean 0.073
- Hue: 197.2° → 338.6° (span 141.9°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: cyan, rose
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 85.6, mean/step 0.336, max step 0.623, smoothness 0.736, speed 0.336

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 64.5; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 62.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 85.9; preserves order: yes

## Related

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