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James Ward Palette 7

Penumbral Tawny
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Tawny Warm orange-brown - a traditional term for the color of tanned leather or lion fur.
James Ward Palette 7 - Penumbral Tawny

Color Composition

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Colors
#453724
22.70%
#2E2821
17.20%
#614B27
12.80%
#625643
12.30%
#816D46
9.60%
#99733D
6.90%
#AB9670
6.80%
#DDCCA8
5.10%
#CCA660
3.90%
#8F928E
2.70%

Palette Analysis

James Ward occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. Only 5.1% is devoted to #DDCCA8, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 7 of James Ward'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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