Maurin Color Palette - Yellow & Amber Combination

Color Composition

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Colors

#E5E0C5

21.50%

#F0E3BD

19.30%

#6E8B8C

15.50%

#C8CDB9

11.20%

#D1B288

9.50%

#E0D0AC

8.90%

#A5B7AD

6.60%

#9C8E76

4.00%

#EEC780

2.10%

#E0926B

1.50%

Palette Analysis

Charles Maurin is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Only 8.9% is devoted to #E0D0AC, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. Value range is moderate at 31 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Charles Maurin's complete body of work advances.