# Purples

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorbrewer.Purples
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, purple, single-hue, light-start
Stops: 256

## Summary

Purples 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 'Purples' (9-class anchors).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.989 → 0.318 (range 0.672, min 0.318, max 0.989); monotonic; midpoint 0.708
- Chroma: min 0.003, max 0.173, mean 0.077
- Hue: 308.4° → 296.2° (span 24.5°), path folded; quadrants: violet
- Endpoint temperature: null → cool
- Perceptual ΔE: total 72.6, mean/step 0.285, max step 0.489, smoothness 0.639, speed 0.285

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 69.4; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 69.8; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 69.7; preserves order: yes

## Related

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