Yellow-Gray-Blue

Summary

Yellow-Gray-Blue is a diverging colormap from paraview. Two arms meet at a pivot of lightness 0.98, hue sweeps 244° from red to azure, and order breaks under protan, deutan, and tritan simulation.

55-point Lab yellow-gray-blue diverging.

Perceptual profile (OKLCh)

• Lightness: 0.279 → 0.957 (range 0.702, min 0.279, max 0.981); non-monotonic; midpoint 0.534
• Chroma: min 0.013, max 0.176, mean 0.070
• Hue: 17.0° → 224.3° (span 244.1°), path folded; quadrants: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, violet, blue, azure
• Pivot: t 0.326, lightness 0.981, hue jump 0.4°, smoothness 0.690
• Endpoint temperature: warm → cool
• Perceptual ΔE: total 254.9, mean/step 1.000, max step 7.138, smoothness 0.379, speed 1.000

Colorblind safety (ΔE under simulated CVD)

• Protanopia: ΔE total 238.8; preserves order: no
• Deuteranopia: ΔE total 231.3; preserves order: no
• Tritanopia: ΔE total 236.3; preserves order: no

Related

• Family: paraview
• Source: ParaView / VTK — Kitware (presets curated by Moreland, Samsel et al.)
• Similar diverging maps: Blue Orange (div), Cold and Hot, Cool to Warm, Cool to Warm (Extended), ERDC DivHi PurpleGreen, ERDC DivLow IcePeach, ERDC DivLow PurpleGreen, ERDC Icefire (H)
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