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Hans Gude 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.
Hans Gude Palette 10 - Penumbral Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#2A2419
14.50%
#423821
12.90%
#514C24
12.50%
#5A4E37
11.60%
#6D633E
11.20%
#1B1611
10.30%
#39352C
10.20%
#CBC4B8
9.50%
#837E68
4.20%
#9A9568
3.20%

Palette Analysis

Hans Gude occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #1B1611 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (10.3%). The value range spans 62 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. In the context of Hans Gude's full range of palettes, group 10 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.

Example use cases

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

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