Le Corbusier Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Le Corbusier is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #A27F41, covers 25.7% of the surface: too much to call an accent, too strong to ignore. At just 24 units of value range, the palette is tonally close-knit; differentiation comes from colour rather than light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Le Corbusier's palette 1 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.