Watermelon

Summary

Watermelon is a diverging colormap from cmasher. Two arms meet at a pivot of lightness 0.02, hue sweeps 173° from green to rose, and order holds under all three colorblind simulations.

Pink-green watermelon diverging.

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.895 → 0.902 (range 0.877, min 0.025, max 0.902); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.025
• Chroma: min 0.001, max 0.247, mean 0.099
• Hue: 132.9° → 333.1° (span 173.3°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: green, red, rose
• Pivot: t 0.498, lightness 0.025, hue jump 82.3°, smoothness 0.500
• Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
• Perceptual ΔE: total 170.0, mean/step 0.667, max step 1.072, smoothness 0.793, speed 0.667

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 153.4; preserves order: yes
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 154.9; preserves order: yes
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 165.8; preserves order: yes

Related

• Family: cmasher
• Source: Ellert van der Velden — CMasher (10.21105/joss.02004)
• Similar diverging maps: Fusion, Guppy, Holly, Iceburn, Pride, Prinsenvlag, Redshift, Seaweed
• All colormaps