Color one

Smoky black

#100C08

Color two

White

#FFFFFF

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Third colors

20 colors that pair with Smoky black & White

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Bistre
#3D2B1F
Zinnwaldite brown
#2C1608
Café noir
#4B3621
Van Dyke brown
#664228
Coyote brown
#81613C
Khaki
#C3B091
Shadow
#8A795D
Olive Drab
#3C341F
Coffee
#6F4E37
Kobicha
#6B4423
Umber
#635147
Café au lait
#A67B5B
Drab dark brown
#4A412A
Pine green
#2A2F23
Bone
#E3DAC9
Camel
#C19A6B
Metallic Sunburst
#9C7C38
Seal brown
#59260B
Dark lava
#483C32
Russet
#80461B

Smoky black (#100C08) and White (#FFFFFF) appear together across 6 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Samuel Peploe, Jan Brueghel the Younger, and Dosso Dossi and the Baroque tradition. Painters typically deployed smoky black at an average of 39% of the canvas, with white at 26%. Third colors most often completing the combination include Bistre (#3D2B1F), Zinnwaldite brown (#2C1608), and Café noir (#4B3621).

Artworks Featuring Smoky black & White

Sally palette card
Sally
Joseph DeCamp · 1907
Rest on the Flight into Egypt palette card
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Disks Bearing Spirals palette card
Disks Bearing Spirals
Marcel Duchamp · 1923
Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Madonna palette card
Doge Francesco Dandolo and His Wife Presented to the Madonna
Paolo Veneziano · 1339
Death and the Maiden palette card
Death and the Maiden
Marianne Stokes · 1908
A portrait of a smiling woman wearing a fur coat palette card
A portrait of a smiling woman wearing a fur coat
Ignacio Zuloaga

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Smoky black & White

6 master palettes where Smoky black and White appear together most prominently.

Samuel Peploe Palette 8 - Dimmed Ash

Samuel Peploe

44.9% Smoky black · 26.4% White
Jan Brueghel the Younger Palette 2 - Veiled Parchment

Jan Brueghel the Younger

37.4% Smoky black · 31.6% White
Dosso Dossi Palette 5 - Muted Parchment

Dosso Dossi

37.5% Smoky black · 25.6% White
Thomas de Keyser Palette 2 - Muted Parchment

Thomas de Keyser

33.0% Smoky black · 27.6% White
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Palette 4 - Nocturnal Sienna

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

46.9% Smoky black · 18.9% White
David Rijckaert III Palette 2 - Shadowed Sienna

David Rijckaert III

33.9% Smoky black · 23.8% White

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