# Smooth cool-warm

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

## Summary

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

Canonical Moreland diverging.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.475 → 0.487 (range 0.421, min 0.475, max 0.897); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.897
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.195, mean 0.110
- Hue: 271.3° → 22.4° (span 254.1°), path folded; quadrants: violet, blue, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 135.9, mean/step 0.533, max step 1.610, smoothness 0.639, speed 0.533

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 120.0; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 115.1; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 125.3; preserves order: no

## Related

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