# Holly

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmasher.holly
Source type: Colormap
Type: diverging
Collection: cmasher
Attribution: Ellert van der Velden — CMasher (10.21105/joss.02004)
License: BSD-3
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1313e/CMasher/master/src/cmasher/colormaps/holly/holly_norm.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, diverging
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Red↔green holly diverging.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.185 → 0.189 (range 0.811, min 0.185, max 0.996); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.996
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.146, mean 0.075
- Hue: 110.6° → 323.9° (span 180.6°), path folded; quadrants: chartreuse, green, red, rose, magenta
- Endpoint temperature: neutral → neutral
- Perceptual ΔE: total 181.4, mean/step 0.712, max step 1.202, smoothness 0.878, speed 0.712

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 164.8; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 162.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 180.6; preserves order: yes

## Related

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