Raisin black (#242124) is a very dark neutral shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Josef Albers, Jusepe de Ribera, and Francisco de Zurbaran and the Baroque tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Khaki (#C3B091), Bone (#E3DAC9), and Bistre (#3D2B1F). The combination forms a sombre, weighty chord, pulls a neutral anchor into a warm composition, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the lighter companions read as highlights.
