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Carlo Fornara Palette 2

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 Fornara Palette 2 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#7C7B34
17.00%
#815C2E
13.10%
#434440
11.30%
#272E24
10.10%
#1D1C1B
9.60%
#796B57
9.40%
#47522A
9.10%
#4F3D27
8.90%
#6E8AA0
7.80%
#B3A48C
3.60%

Palette Analysis

The value structure of Carlo Fornara is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. Rather than a studied accent, #6E8AA0 takes 7.8% - a bold allocation that saturates the composition's atmosphere. Spanning 50 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Carlo Fornara's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

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

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