Independence (#4C516D) is a deep cool shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Florine Stettheimer, Henri-Paul Motte, and John Duncan Fergusson and the Cubism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Khaki (#C3B091), Bone (#E3DAC9), and Raisin black (#242124). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with a moderate step up in value that keeps the source recessed.
