# Gow

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/colorcet.gow
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_gow_60-85_c27_n256.csv
Tags: isoluminant
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.648 → 0.871 (range 0.223, min 0.648, max 0.871); monotonic; midpoint 0.765
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.100, mean 0.067
- Hue: 180.3° → 179.9° (span 102.7°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow
- Endpoint temperature: cool → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 64.5, mean/step 0.253, max step 0.513, smoothness 0.594, speed 0.253

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 48.7; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 54.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 69.5; preserves order: yes

## Related

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