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David Scott Palette 4

Tenebrous Bister
Tenebrous Dark and murky - low-key values with obscured form, Baroque in temperament.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
David Scott Palette 4 - Tenebrous Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#251A10
22.00%
#2E2814
16.40%
#483618
12.80%
#5F5033
12.70%
#161A18
11.20%
#E1DFB9
7.60%
#B2AA7F
5.20%
#53290A
4.70%
#835121
4.20%
#9A7D4C
3.20%

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give David Scott its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. Only 4.2% is devoted to #835121, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. 69 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 4 sits within the larger chromatic argument that David Scott's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

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

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