Ming (#36747D) is a deep cool shade that appears across 4 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Robert Alott, Frank Tenney Johnson, and Thomas Dewing and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Khaki (#C3B091), Ebony (#555D50), and Olive Drab (#3C341F). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a split-complementary spread, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
