Train smoke

Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway · 84.5 x 109 cm

Soft Slate
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
Train smoke by Edvard Munch

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
43.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
12.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.7
cool
Dominant Hue
#636868 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 202°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 43.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 12.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 43.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Train smoke" (1900) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Dusty Pink. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #253443 pulls the eye.

Example use cases

Subject Tags

Build a palette inspired by Train smoke
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Edvard Munch

More from Expressionism

← Browse all artworks