# Asymmetric Earth Tones

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/paraview.asymm-earth-tones
Source type: Colormap
Type: sequential
Collection: paraview
Attribution: ParaView / VTK — Kitware (presets curated by Moreland, Samsel et al.)
License: BSD-3
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kitware/ParaView/master/Remoting/Views/ColorMaps.json
Tags: cartographic, terrain
Stops: 256

## Summary

Asymmetric Earth Tones is a sequential colormap from the paraview collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

Asymmetric earth tones ramp by Samsel.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.272 → 0.331 (range 0.702, min 0.272, max 0.975); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.898
- Chroma: min 0.017, max 0.106, mean 0.057
- Hue: 277.8° → 14.8° (span 263.0°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: violet, blue, azure, cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 160.6, mean/step 0.630, max step 1.327, smoothness 0.624, speed 0.630

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 147.6; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 144.1; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 146.8; preserves order: yes

## Related

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