# Muted

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/tol.muted
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, cvd-friendly
Stops: 10

## Summary

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

10-class qualitative palette.

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.635 → 0.897 (range 0.550, min 0.347, max 0.897); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.812
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.167, mean 0.115
- Hue: 11.0° → 0.0° (span 360.0°), path folded; quadrants: red, violet, chartreuse, green, azure, rose, cyan
- Endpoint temperature: warm → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 468.9, mean/step 52.102, max step 83.537, smoothness 0.693, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 399.5; preserves order: no
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 387.8; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 444.2; preserves order: no

## Related

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