# Tropical

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

## Summary

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

Vivid tropical sequential.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.477 → 0.903 (range 0.426, min 0.477, max 0.903); monotonic; midpoint 0.669
- Chroma: min 0.141, max 0.220, mean 0.176
- Hue: 321.1° → 195.1° (span 234.0°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: magenta, rose, red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, green, mint, cyan
- Endpoint temperature: cool → cool
- Perceptual ΔE: total 146.7, mean/step 0.575, max step 0.714, smoothness 0.829, speed 0.575

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 120.6; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 112.4; 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