# Rainbow Desaturated

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/paraview.rainbow-desaturated
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: rainbow
Stops: 256

## Summary

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

8-point desaturated rainbow.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.498 → 0.623 (range 0.745, min 0.219, max 0.964); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.728
- Chroma: min 0.116, max 0.219, mean 0.171
- Hue: 275.0° → 24.1° (span 250.8°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: violet, blue, azure, cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 316.2, mean/step 1.240, max step 2.825, smoothness 0.590, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 282.9; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 280.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 296.2; preserves order: no

## Related

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