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Carl Gustav Carus Palette 3

Penumbral Caramel
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Caramel Warm mid-brown - the color of cooked sugar, smooth and amber-toned.
Carl Gustav Carus Palette 3 - Penumbral Caramel

Color Composition

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Colors
#B18C59
22.10%
#A28252
18.50%
#BA8E54
15.50%
#2B1E12
12.30%
#211914
9.80%
#3B2612
8.30%
#4F3114
6.50%
#78552A
3.40%
#966E4E
2.00%
#D49E51
1.60%

Palette Analysis

Values in Carl Gustav Carus rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Mid-range chroma keeps the palette grounded - colourful but not strident. Only 1.6% is devoted to #D49E51, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. Spanning 52 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. This is palette 3 of Carl Gustav Carus's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.

Example use cases

  • theater design
  • jewelry brands
  • tobacco-adjacent retail
  • event branding
  • film & entertainment

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