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Harry Brooker Palette 4

Nocturnal Bister
Nocturnal Night-register palette - very low values, the world after dark.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
Harry Brooker Palette 4 - Nocturnal Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#262120
17.80%
#372723
15.30%
#483226
13.90%
#39312A
12.30%
#6D5638
11.10%
#584736
9.00%
#683C27
7.00%
#967854
6.10%
#B39C74
5.20%
#D0C3AE
2.30%

Palette Analysis

Harry Brooker occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Harry Brooker orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #B39C74 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.2%). 57 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is palette 4 of Harry Brooker's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.

Example use cases

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

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