Cadet grey (#91A3B0) is a mid-tone cool shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, Jules Bastien-Lepage, and Atanasio Soldati and the Baroque tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Khaki (#C3B091), Bone (#E3DAC9), and Shadow (#8A795D). The combination forms a steady, atmospheric chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
