# Tableau 10

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/d3.Tableau10
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
Collection: d3
Attribution: d3-scale-chromatic (Mike Bostock and contributors)
License: ISC
Source: https://github.com/d3/d3-scale-chromatic/blob/main/src/categorical/Tableau10.js
Tags: categorical, choropleth
Stops: 10

## Summary

Tableau 10 is a categorical colormap from the d3 collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

Tableau classic 10-color qualitative palette.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.565 → 0.764 (range 0.280, min 0.565, max 0.845); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.642
- Chroma: min 0.013, max 0.173, mean 0.104
- Hue: 251.1° → 48.5° (span 298.5°), path folded; quadrants: blue, orange, red, cyan, green, chartreuse, rose
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 298.2, mean/step 33.133, max step 52.947, smoothness 0.617, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 241.6; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 248.2; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 254.2; preserves order: no

## Related

- Family: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/families/d3
- All colormaps: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps