Our line-of-sight extinction model as a function of distance towards the Vela C cloud (l, b = 264.7 ° ,1.4°). The background grayscale shows the probabilistic distance and extinction estimates for all the stars used in the fit, with the most probable distance and extinction to every star marked via a red cross. The blue step function shows the typical extinction profile inferred for the sightline. The median foreground extinction prior to the cloud distance D_C (at distance modulus μ_C) is shown as a blue horizontal line. The range of estimated distances to the cloud is shown as an inverted blue histogram, with the median cloud distance and the corresponding 16th/84th percentiles marked with solid and dashed blue vertical lines, respectively. Beyond the cloud distance, the bottom and top blue lines show the 16th and 84th percentile of the Planck-based extinction towards the stars. The distance uncertainties do not include systematic uncertainties, which we estimate to be roughly 5%.