# Picnic

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/plotly.picnic
Source type: Colormap
Type: diverging
Collection: plotly
Attribution: plotly.js / plotly.py contributors
License: MIT
Source: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/main/_plotly_utils/colors/plotlyjs.py
Tags: diverging, pastel
Stops: 256

## Summary

Picnic is a diverging colormap from the plotly collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

Pastel blue↔pink↔red diverging.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.452 → 0.628 (range 0.546, min 0.452, max 0.998); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.997
- Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.313, mean 0.142
- Hue: 264.1° → 29.2° (span 156.6°), path monotonic-cw; quadrants: blue, azure, violet, magenta, rose, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 183.9, mean/step 0.721, max step 2.087, smoothness 0.463, speed 0.721

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 154.9; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 146.4; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 144.1; preserves order: no

## Related

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