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Jan de Bray Palette 5

Nocturnal Terracotta
Nocturnal Night-register palette - very low values, the world after dark.
Terracotta Fired clay red-orange - the color of unglazed earthenware pottery.
Jan de Bray Palette 5 - Nocturnal Terracotta

Color Composition

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Colors
#161309
19.10%
#502B08
16.10%
#281909
14.10%
#3A1E06
13.00%
#6A3A08
12.10%
#BB8D58
7.80%
#A46C19
6.20%
#815A31
5.90%
#9F3509
3.20%
#E3CA99
2.60%

Palette Analysis

Jan de Bray sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Jan de Bray deploys as the palette's primary energy. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. At 12.1%, #6A3A08 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. At 66 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 5 of Jan de Bray'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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