Magenta
Summary
Magenta is a sequential colormap from carto. Lightness falls monotonically from 0.88 to 0.39, hue sweeps 34° from red to rose, and order holds under all three colorblind simulations.
CARTOColors 'Magenta' (7-class anchor stops, tag: quantitative).
Perceptual profile (OKLCh)
- Lightness: 0.879 → 0.393 (range 0.486, min 0.393, max 0.879); monotonic; midpoint 0.649
- Chroma: min 0.046, max 0.151, mean 0.120
- Hue: 4.6° → 330.6° (span 34.0°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: red, rose
- Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
- Perceptual ΔE: total 54.6, mean/step 0.214, max step 0.245, smoothness 0.949, speed 0.214
Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)
- Protanopia: ΔE total 53.1; preserves order: yes
- Deuteranopia: ΔE total 51.1; preserves order: yes
- Tritanopia: ΔE total 52.5; preserves order: yes