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Francesco Botticini Palette 7

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.
Francesco Botticini Palette 7 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#5C4A3F
16.70%
#575333
16.60%
#8E6147
12.60%
#736A4D
12.60%
#474A3E
11.90%
#373328
11.50%
#928B71
7.50%
#677668
3.90%
#9B3C37
3.80%
#582E2C
3.00%

Palette Analysis

Francesco Botticini distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The highest-chroma note - #582E2C - appears at just 3.0%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The value range of 32 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 7 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Francesco Botticini's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

  • film & entertainment
  • fine dining
  • spirits branding
  • menswear
  • theater design

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