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Carlo Ademollo Palette 5

Penumbral Bister
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
Carlo Ademollo Palette 5 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#3F3721
22.40%
#252215
18.40%
#5C4D2C
15.20%
#A89F7C
9.60%
#816D4F
8.50%
#48553C
6.40%
#8B7339
6.10%
#6A7147
6.10%
#AE9361
3.70%
#CEBD6E
3.60%

Palette Analysis

Carlo Ademollo sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. At 3.7%, #AE9361 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 55 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 5 of Carlo Ademollo'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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