# Bent cool-warm

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/moreland.bent-cool-warm
Source type: Colormap
Type: diverging
Collection: moreland
Attribution: Kenneth Moreland — color-advice.com
License: CC0
Source: https://www.kennethmoreland.com/color-advice/bent-cool-warm/bent-cool-warm-table-byte-0256.csv
Tags: diverging, perceptually-uniform
Stops: 256

## Summary

Bent cool-warm is a diverging colormap from the moreland collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

Sharper-midpoint Moreland diverging variant.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.475 → 0.487 (range 0.485, min 0.475, max 0.960); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.960
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.195, mean 0.096
- Hue: 271.3° → 22.4° (span 254.2°), path folded; quadrants: violet, blue, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 134.8, mean/step 0.528, max step 1.272, smoothness 0.663, speed 0.528

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 119.4; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 113.2; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 126.4; preserves order: yes

## Related

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