# CB-Kcw

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorcet.cb-tritan-kcw
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: colorcet
Attribution: Kovesi 2015 — "Good Colour Maps: How to Design Them" (arXiv:1509.03700)
License: CC-BY-4.0
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holoviz/colorcet/main/assets/CET/linear-tritanopic_kcw_5-95_c22_n256.csv
Tags: cvd-friendly, dark-bg, bathymetry
Stops: 256

## Summary

CB-Kcw is a sequential colormap from the colorcet collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.177 → 0.957 (range 0.780, min 0.177, max 0.957); monotonic; midpoint 0.559
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.132, mean 0.072
- Hue: 182.0° → 181.7° (span 34.0°), path folded; quadrants: azure
- Endpoint temperature: null → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 95.0, mean/step 0.373, max step 1.771, smoothness 0.437, speed 0.373

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 81.3; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 84.7; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 104.2; preserves order: yes

## Related

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