Othon Friesz Master Palette

Palette Analysis

Othon Friesz sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The highest-chroma note - #C5C27A - appears at just 4.9%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The full value range is 61 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. These proportions encode Othon Friesz's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.