Caricature Master Palette

Palette Analysis

caricature painters returned to these tonal relationships repeatedly; this palette is their shared chromatic grammar. The value structure of caricature is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. The most saturated colour, #FCECC1, is reserved to 5.0% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 72 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. The caricature movement spoke in this palette's vocabulary.