# Dense

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmocean.dense
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: cmocean
Attribution: Thyng, Greene, Hetland, Zimmerle, DiMarco 2016, Oceanography 29(3)
License: MIT
Source: https://matplotlib.org/cmocean/
Tags: oceanography
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Designed for density.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.949 → 0.241 (range 0.709, min 0.241, max 0.949); monotonic; midpoint 0.604
- Chroma: min 0.011, max 0.156, mean 0.108
- Hue: 196.3° → 349.6° (span 153.3°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, rose
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 93.8, mean/step 0.368, max step 0.432, smoothness 0.918, speed 0.368

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 84.9; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 84.0; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 102.5; preserves order: yes

## Related

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