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Pierre Roy Palette 5

Penumbral Parchment
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Parchment Aged warm neutral - the color of old manuscript parchment, tan and slightly yellowed.
Pierre Roy Palette 5 - Penumbral Parchment

Color Composition

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Colors
#393732
19.50%
#434740
15.90%
#57493B
14.80%
#72624F
11.70%
#858070
11.60%
#5E6054
8.90%
#8E99A7
6.30%
#ABA390
5.20%
#A68D64
4.60%
#54606C
1.50%

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give Pierre Roy its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #A68D64 delivers the chromatic peak at only 4.6% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. Value range is moderate at 38 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 5 of Pierre Roy'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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