# Pale

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/colormaps/tol.pale
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, pale, background
Stops: 6

## Summary

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

6-class pale qualitative palette (background tints).

## Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

- Lightness: 0.843 → 0.897 (range 0.093, min 0.843, max 0.937); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.872
- Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.070, mean 0.048
- Hue: 264.3° → 0.0° (span 325.2°), path folded; quadrants: blue, red, green, chartreuse, azure
- Endpoint temperature: cool → null
- Perceptual ΔE: total 103.8, mean/step 20.770, max step 33.971, smoothness 0.522, speed 1.000

## Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

- Protanopia: ΔE total 69.6; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 74.4; preserves order: no
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 114.4; preserves order: no

## Related

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