# Dark

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/seaborn.dark
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
Collection: seaborn
Attribution: Michael Waskom, seaborn (BSD-3); rocket/mako/flare/crest/vlag/icefire LUTs from seaborn/cm.py
License: BSD-3-Clause
Source: https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/color_palettes.html
Tags: categorical, qualitative
Stops: 10

## Summary

Dark is a categorical colormap from the seaborn collection. Inspect its perceptual lightness, chroma, and hue profile on colorcurio.us.

seaborn 'dark' qualitative palette (10 classes).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.301 → 0.460 (range 0.349, min 0.301, max 0.650); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.367
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.167, mean 0.123
- Hue: 263.7° → 214.8° (span 311.1°), path folded; quadrants: blue, orange, green, magenta, rose, yellow, azure
- Endpoint temperature: cool → cool
- Perceptual ΔE: total 391.0, mean/step 43.446, max step 60.574, smoothness 0.780, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 303.1; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 308.9; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 330.8; preserves order: no

## Related

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