# Pastel

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/seaborn.pastel
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

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

seaborn 'pastel' qualitative palette (10 classes).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.822 → 0.922 (range 0.179, min 0.799, max 0.978); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.833
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.128, mean 0.086
- Hue: 250.6° → 193.5° (span 302.9°), path folded; quadrants: blue, orange, mint, red, violet, yellow, rose, chartreuse, cyan
- Endpoint temperature: cool → cool
- Perceptual ΔE: total 301.8, mean/step 33.537, max step 55.043, smoothness 0.716, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 218.9; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 213.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 260.0; preserves order: no

## Related

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