# Land Cover

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/tol.land_cover
Source type: Colormap
Type: categorical
Collection: tol
Attribution: Paul Tol, "Colour Schemes" (SRON/EPS/TN/09-002)
License: BSD-3-Clause
Source: https://sronpersonalpages.nl/~pault/
Tags: categorical, thematic, land-cover
Stops: 14

## Summary

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

14-class land-cover thematic palette.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.528 → 0.498 (range 0.444, min 0.498, max 0.942); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.585
- Chroma: min 0.058, max 0.203, mean 0.124
- Hue: 271.6° → 27.2° (span 244.4°), path folded; quadrants: violet, green, mint, chartreuse, red
- Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 278.5, mean/step 21.426, max step 61.163, smoothness 0.285, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 255.9; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 244.2; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 224.6; preserves order: no

## Related

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