# Batlow W

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/crameri.batlowW
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: crameri
Attribution: Crameri 2018 — Scientific Colour Maps v8 (Zenodo)
License: MIT
Source: https://github.com/callumrollo/cmcrameri/raw/main/cmcrameri/cmaps/batlowW.txt
Tags: perceptually-uniform, light-start, light-mode
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

White-anchored batlow variant; light-mode sequential.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.251 → 0.998 (range 0.747, min 0.251, max 0.998); monotonic; midpoint 0.597
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.119, mean 0.078
- Hue: 262.9° → 19.9° (span 244.5°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: blue, azure, cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 138.6, mean/step 0.544, max step 0.556, smoothness 0.994, speed 0.544

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 105.8; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 106.3; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 114.0; preserves order: yes

## Related

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