Dark red (#8B0000) is a deep warm shade that appears across 2 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Andres de Santa Maria, and Matthew Smith and the Impressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with MSU green (#18453B), Rich black (#010203), and Gold (#E6BE8A). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on a split-complementary spread, spans a mixed temperature range, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
