# Glasbey (light bg)

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorcet.glasbey-light
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_bw_minc_20_minl_30_n256.csv
Tags: categorical, glasbey
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

Excludes too-light colours; tuned for light backgrounds.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.552 → 0.864 (range 0.496, min 0.479, max 0.975); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.639
- Chroma: min 0.036, max 0.308, mean 0.130
- Hue: 29.2° → 97.2° (span 360.0°), path folded; quadrants: red, green, magenta, azure, yellow, rose, mint, violet, cyan, chartreuse, orange, blue
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 10842.0, mean/step 42.518, max step 96.231, smoothness 0.585, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 8116.6; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 7170.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 8942.9; preserves order: no

## Related

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