# Balance

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmocean.balance
Source type: Colormap
Type: diverging
Collection: cmocean
Attribution: Thyng et al. 2016, Oceanography 29(3):9–13
License: MIT
Source: https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/
Tags: oceanography, perceptually-uniform
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Designed for SST anomaly. Sourced from cmocean/rgb/balance-rgb.txt.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.248 → 0.239 (range 0.708, min 0.239, max 0.947); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.947
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.177, mean 0.097
- Hue: 274.8° → 16.1° (span 179.3°), path folded; quadrants: violet, blue, azure, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 171.3, mean/step 0.672, max step 0.888, smoothness 0.892, speed 0.672

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 155.0; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 153.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 166.1; preserves order: yes

## Related

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