# Glasbey category10

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorcet.glasbey-category10
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
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/Glasbey/glasbey_category10_n256.csv
Tags: categorical, glasbey
Stops: 256

## Summary

Glasbey category10 is a categorical colormap from the colorcet collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

256-color extension of D3 category10.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.549 → 0.728 (range 0.684, min 0.298, max 0.983); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.409
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.312, mean 0.124
- Hue: 244.6° → 160.8° (span 360.0°), path folded; quadrants: blue, orange, green, red, magenta, rose, chartreuse, cyan, violet, mint, yellow, azure
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 11042.5, mean/step 43.304, max step 106.857, smoothness 0.594, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 9303.0; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 8869.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 9333.7; preserves order: no

## Related

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