Glasbey (light bg)

Summary

Glasbey (light bg) is a 256-color categorical colormap from colorcet. Its colors span lightness 0.48–0.98 and chroma 0.04–0.31.

Excludes too-light colours; tuned for light backgrounds.

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.552 → 0.864 (range 0.496, min 0.479, max 0.975); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.639
• Chroma: min 0.036, max 0.308, mean 0.130
• Hue: 29.2° → 97.2° (span 360.0°), path folded; quadrants: red, green, magenta, azure, yellow, rose, mint, violet, cyan, chartreuse, orange, blue
• Endpoint temperature: warm → warm
• Perceptual ΔE: total 10842.0, mean/step 42.518, max step 96.231, smoothness 0.585, speed 1.000

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 8116.6; preserves order: no
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 7170.8; preserves order: no
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 8942.9; preserves order: no

Related

• Family: colorcet
• Source: Kovesi 2015 — "Good Colour Maps: How to Design Them" (arXiv:1509.03700)
• Similar categorical maps: Glasbey, Glasbey BW, Glasbey category10, Glasbey cool, Glasbey (dark bg), Glasbey HV, Glasbey warm
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