Pastel1

Summary

Pastel1 is a 9-color categorical colormap from colorbrewer. Its colors span lightness 0.83–0.99 and chroma 0.00–0.08.

ColorBrewer 2.0 qualitative 'Pastel1' (9-class palette).

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.835 → 0.961 (range 0.153, min 0.835, max 0.988); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.904
• Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.084, mean 0.050
• Hue: 24.4° → 0.0° (span 327.6°), path folded; quadrants: red, blue, green, magenta, yellow, chartreuse, rose
• Endpoint temperature: warm → null
• Perceptual ΔE: total 180.3, mean/step 22.535, max step 31.883, smoothness 0.671, speed 1.000

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 137.9; preserves order: no
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 131.6; preserves order: no
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 128.3; preserves order: no

Related

• Family: colorbrewer
• Source: Cynthia Brewer & Mark Harrower, ColorBrewer 2.0
• Similar categorical maps: Accent, Dark2, Paired, Pastel2, Set1, Set2, Set3
• All colormaps