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David Johnson Palette 10

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.
David Johnson Palette 10 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#28271D
15.20%
#1A191A
14.00%
#564B31
13.40%
#3C3B2F
12.60%
#CEC6B6
10.70%
#4E3127
9.90%
#836D46
9.30%
#949285
7.00%
#BA9663
5.40%
#A85A45
2.50%

Palette Analysis

Values in David Johnson rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. David Johnson builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. The saturated accent, #4E3127, registers at 9.9% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 62 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 10 of David Johnson'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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