# Pastel1

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorbrewer.Pastel1
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
Collection: colorbrewer
Attribution: Cynthia Brewer & Mark Harrower, ColorBrewer 2.0
License: Apache-2.0
Source: https://colorbrewer2.org/
Tags: categorical, colorbrewer, pastel
Stops: 9

## Summary

Pastel1 is a categorical colormap from the colorbrewer collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

ColorBrewer 2.0 qualitative 'Pastel1' (9-class palette).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.835 → 0.961 (range 0.153, min 0.835, max 0.988); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.904
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.084, mean 0.050
- Hue: 24.4° → 0.0° (span 327.6°), path folded; quadrants: red, blue, green, magenta, yellow, chartreuse, rose
- Endpoint temperature: warm → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 180.3, mean/step 22.535, max step 31.883, smoothness 0.671, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 137.9; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 131.6; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 128.3; preserves order: no

## Related

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