# Pastel2

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorbrewer.Pastel2
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: 8

## Summary

Pastel2 is a categorical colormap from the colorbrewer collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

ColorBrewer 2.0 qualitative 'Pastel2' (8-class palette).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.874 → 0.845 (range 0.111, min 0.845, max 0.956); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.883
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.087, mean 0.049
- Hue: 166.1° → 0.0° (span 262.6°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: mint, orange, blue, rose, green, chartreuse, yellow
- Endpoint temperature: neutral → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 147.0, mean/step 20.995, max step 38.692, smoothness 0.518, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 86.9; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 92.7; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 152.0; preserves order: no

## Related

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