# Tempo

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/cmocean.tempo
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, teal
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Designed for time-step / temporal change.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.979 → 0.249 (range 0.730, min 0.249, max 0.979); monotonic; midpoint 0.604
- Chroma: min 0.010, max 0.099, mean 0.064
- Hue: 28.1° → 271.0° (span 242.9°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: chartreuse, green, mint, cyan, azure, blue, violet
- Endpoint temperature: warm → cool
- Perceptual ΔE: total 100.6, mean/step 0.395, max step 0.477, smoothness 0.893, speed 0.395

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 77.9; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 76.6; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 84.8; preserves order: yes

## Related

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