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Illustration Palette 3

Gleaming Ecru
Gleaming Bright and polished - high-key, often warm, suggesting reflective or luminous surfaces.
Ecru Unbleached linen - warm mid-neutral, slightly grayed, raw and natural.
Illustration Palette 3 - Gleaming Ecru

Color Composition

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Colors
#E9D8B6
21.40%
#CBB69B
18.60%
#CCC6BB
14.80%
#EBE4D7
12.50%
#999284
10.70%
#5A5F5D
5.00%
#312726
4.80%
#D2AB73
4.80%
#7C5F48
4.70%
#B45942
2.50%

Palette Analysis

The high-key values of illustration give it an effulgent, almost bleached quality. Built 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 most saturated colour, #B45942, is reserved to 2.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 64 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source.

Example use cases

  • ceramics & pottery
  • boutique hospitality
  • menswear
  • heritage food brands
  • craft & artisan brands

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