# Neon

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmasher.neon
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
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/neon/neon_norm.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, sequential
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

High-saturation rainbow.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.462 → 0.895 (range 0.433, min 0.462, max 0.895); monotonic; midpoint 0.688
- Chroma: min 0.127, max 0.263, mean 0.189
- Hue: 29.8° → 134.3° (span 255.5°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: red, rose, magenta, violet, blue, azure, cyan, mint, green
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 155.5, mean/step 0.610, max step 0.780, smoothness 0.817, speed 0.610

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 143.1; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 129.6; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 114.3; preserves order: yes

## Related

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