Phthalo blue (#000F89) is a deep cool shade that appears across 1 master palette in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Georges Lacombe and the Symbolism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Brown sugar (#AF6E4D), Middle yellow red (#ECB176), and Rosy brown (#BC8F8F). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a split-complementary spread, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with a moderate step up in value that keeps the source recessed.
