Pastel2

Summary

Pastel2 is a 8-color categorical colormap from colorbrewer. Its colors span lightness 0.85–0.96 and chroma 0.00–0.09.

ColorBrewer 2.0 qualitative 'Pastel2' (8-class palette).

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.874 → 0.845 (range 0.111, min 0.845, max 0.956); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.883
• Chroma: min 0.000, max 0.087, mean 0.049
• Hue: 166.1° → 0.0° (span 262.6°), path monotonic-ccw; quadrants: mint, orange, blue, rose, green, chartreuse, yellow
• Endpoint temperature: neutral → null
• Perceptual ΔE: total 147.0, mean/step 20.995, max step 38.692, smoothness 0.518, speed 1.000

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 86.9; preserves order: no
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 92.7; preserves order: no
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 152.0; preserves order: no

Related

• Family: colorbrewer
• Source: Cynthia Brewer & Mark Harrower, ColorBrewer 2.0
• Similar categorical maps: Accent, Dark2, Paired, Pastel1, Set1, Set2, Set3
• All colormaps