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Daniel Gran Palette 1

Penumbral Bister
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
Daniel Gran Palette 1 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#473528
20.90%
#5D4730
20.20%
#7C502E
10.40%
#46574A
9.10%
#2D3027
8.80%
#342018
8.70%
#7A7158
7.40%
#FEFDFD
5.70%
#A69671
4.50%
#AE8049
4.30%

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give Daniel Gran its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #342018 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (8.7%). A value spread of 72 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. This is palette 1 of Daniel Gran's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.

Example use cases

  • theater design
  • jewelry brands
  • tobacco-adjacent retail
  • event branding
  • film & entertainment

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