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Georg Scholz Palette 5

Penumbral Schist
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Georg Scholz Palette 5 - Penumbral Schist

Color Composition

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Colors
#A9B4B3
18.40%
#3F3F2E
16.10%
#656E3E
12.80%
#565339
10.60%
#899CA2
10.00%
#716B4B
8.80%
#232617
8.80%
#886F4E
6.20%
#1F201E
6.10%
#C8C5AF
2.10%

Palette Analysis

Values in Georg Scholz rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Georg Scholz builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #886F4E - appears at just 6.2%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. A value spread of 58 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 5 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Georg Scholz's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

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

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