# Oranges

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorbrewer.Oranges
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: colorbrewer
Attribution: Cynthia Brewer & Mark Harrower, ColorBrewer 2.0
License: Apache-2.0
Source: https://colorbrewer2.org/
Tags: sequential, colorbrewer, single-hue, orange, single-hue, light-start
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

ColorBrewer 2.0 single-hue sequential 'Oranges' (9-class anchors).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.975 → 0.405 (range 0.570, min 0.405, max 0.975); monotonic; midpoint 0.753
- Chroma: min 0.017, max 0.192, mean 0.127
- Hue: 67.6° → 38.3° (span 29.3°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: yellow, orange
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 73.5, mean/step 0.288, max step 0.391, smoothness 0.849, speed 0.288

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 69.9; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 66.5; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 71.2; preserves order: yes

## Related

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