Columbus sailing from Palos

Soft Sage
Soft Low-contrast, gentle chroma - mid-key values and low saturation, approachable and calm.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Columbus sailing from Palos by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
49.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
15.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
4.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#797461 yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 96°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 49.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 15.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 49.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Columbus sailing from Palos" (1892) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #565C66 pulls the eye.

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