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Pietro Longhi Palette 9

Nocturnal Umber
Nocturnal Night-register palette - very low values, the world after dark.
Umber Dark earthy brown - raw or burnt umber, a foundational old-master earth pigment.
Pietro Longhi Palette 9 - Nocturnal Umber

Color Composition

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Colors
#4D2A27
23.60%
#57322B
18.40%
#3C2524
11.80%
#764736
9.60%
#60342B
8.80%
#2C2322
8.50%
#8E5840
6.20%
#B28D67
4.80%
#9A6F50
4.20%
#CAAA84
4.10%

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give Pietro Longhi its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Warmth dominates - the palette of Pietro Longhi leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 4.1% is devoted to #CAAA84, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range of 49 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 9 of Pietro Longhi'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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