Dark brown (#654321) is a deep warm shade that appears across 18 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of John Souch, William H. Johnson, and Anton Raphael Mengs and the Baroque tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Smoky black (#100C08), Pine green (#2A2F23), and White (#FFFFFF). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on closely related hues, spans a mixed temperature range, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
