# Solar

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmocean.solar
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, dark-start, yellow
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Designed for solar radiation.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.240 → 0.944 (range 0.704, min 0.240, max 0.944); monotonic; midpoint 0.585
- Chroma: min 0.051, max 0.196, mean 0.131
- Hue: 13.7° → 118.4° (span 104.8°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 94.6, mean/step 0.371, max step 0.414, smoothness 0.910, speed 0.371

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 79.4; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 73.2; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 89.1; preserves order: yes

## Related

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