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Charles Louis Muller Palette 2

Nocturnal Bister
Nocturnal Night-register palette - very low values, the world after dark.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
Charles Louis Muller Palette 2 - Nocturnal Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#16100B
21.50%
#45372C
17.80%
#31241C
16.10%
#6C4B2B
12.00%
#4B2F1A
11.40%
#FCFBFA
7.10%
#966C3B
5.90%
#C6A065
3.60%
#8C7455
3.40%
#EAC475
1.30%

Palette Analysis

Values in Charles Louis Muller 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. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #4B2F1A - appears at just 11.4%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The value range spans 81 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. This is palette 2 of Charles Louis Muller'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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