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El Lissitzky Palette 8

Muted Vermillion
Muted Deliberately desaturated - chroma pulled toward gray, the restraint of tonal painting.
Vermillion Brilliant red-orange - the classic mercury sulfide pigment, vivid and warm.
El Lissitzky Palette 8 - Muted Vermillion

Color Composition

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Colors
#EE6424
32.60%
#F96025
17.90%
#FB6C39
16.70%
#1D160E
14.90%
#EC2A1F
4.10%
#292624
3.90%
#C75F2F
3.30%
#502818
3.30%
#924827
2.70%
#A52925
0.70%

Palette Analysis

El Lissitzky occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from El Lissitzky carry the compositional weight. Saturation is pushed to its limits; every colour declares itself at maximum chromatic intensity. #EE6424 at 32.6% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. #C75F2F functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (3.3%). Spanning 49 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. Palette 8 sits within the larger chromatic argument that El Lissitzky's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

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  • consumer apps
  • hospitality
  • design agencies

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