# Pepper

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmasher.pepper
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/pepper/pepper_norm.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, sequential
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Black→red sequential.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.239 → 0.848 (range 0.608, min 0.239, max 0.848); monotonic; midpoint 0.543
- Chroma: min 0.087, max 0.280, mean 0.143
- Hue: 8.4° → 142.0° (span 133.6°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, green
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 100.8, mean/step 0.395, max step 0.479, smoothness 0.874, speed 0.395

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 80.1; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 66.0; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 103.2; preserves order: yes

## Related

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