diff --git a/client/src/components/brushableHistogram/index.js b/client/src/components/brushableHistogram/index.js
index 657703bf..ff83ac99 100644
--- a/client/src/components/brushableHistogram/index.js
+++ b/client/src/components/brushableHistogram/index.js
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class HistogramBrush extends React.Component {
       dispatch({
         type: "color by continuous metadata",
         colorAccessor: field,
-        rangeMaxForColorAccessor: ranges.max
+        rangeForColorAccessor: ranges
       });
     } else if (world.varData.hasCol(field)) {
       dispatch(actions.requestSingleGeneExpressionCountsForColoringPOST(field));
diff --git a/client/src/components/continuous/continuous.js b/client/src/components/continuous/continuous.js
index 10656d9b..7ec7e464 100644
--- a/client/src/components/continuous/continuous.js
+++ b/client/src/components/continuous/continuous.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class Continuous extends React.Component {
       dispatch({
         type: "color by continuous metadata",
         colorAccessor: key,
-        rangeMaxForColorAccessor: summary.max
+        rangeForColorAccessor: summary
       });
     };
   }
diff --git a/client/src/middleware/updateCellColors.js b/client/src/middleware/updateCellColors.js
index 7d5a3e3c..3edecdc3 100644
--- a/client/src/middleware/updateCellColors.js
+++ b/client/src/middleware/updateCellColors.js
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ const updateCellColorsMiddleware = store => next => action => {
 
   if (action.type === "color by continuous metadata") {
     const colorBins = 100;
-    const [min, max] = [0, action.rangeMaxForColorAccessor];
+    const { min, max } = action.rangeForColorAccessor;
     colorScale = d3
       .scaleQuantile()
       .domain([min, max])