Blue-Green-Orange

Summary

Blue-Green-Orange is a sequential colormap from paraview. Lightness spans 0.35–0.92, hue sweeps 222° from blue to red, and order breaks under protan, deutan, and tritan simulation.

50-point CIELAB multi-hue sequential.

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.922 → 0.350 (range 0.572, min 0.350, max 0.922); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.529
• Chroma: min 0.033, max 0.149, mean 0.112
• Hue: 245.3° → 29.6° (span 222.3°), path folded; quadrants: blue, azure, cyan, mint, green, chartreuse, yellow, orange, red
• Endpoint temperature: cool → warm
• Perceptual ΔE: total 217.6, mean/step 0.853, max step 5.482, smoothness 0.377, speed 0.853

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 195.8; preserves order: no
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 191.4; preserves order: no
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 196.3; preserves order: no

Related

• Family: paraview
• Source: ParaView / VTK — Kitware (presets curated by Moreland, Samsel et al.)
• Similar sequential maps: 2hot, Asymmetric Earth Tones, Black, Blue & White, Black-Body Radiation, Black, Orange & White, ERDC Rainbow (bright), ERDC Rainbow (dark), Haze
• All colormaps