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Rik Wouters Palette 5

Penumbral Sienna
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
Rik Wouters Palette 5 - Penumbral Sienna

Color Composition

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Colors
#121417
25.10%
#91775B
14.40%
#8B8375
11.90%
#38353A
9.50%
#D0BD9F
9.30%
#615B53
8.50%
#173F33
6.50%
#66442E
5.50%
#2B2219
4.80%
#9A4920
4.40%

Palette Analysis

Rik Wouters distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 25.1%, #121417 functions less as a colour accent and more as a complete atmospheric environment. The most saturated colour, #66442E, is reserved to 5.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 62 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 5 of Rik Wouters's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.

Example use cases

  • music labels
  • luxury hospitality
  • editorial photography
  • leather goods
  • premium streaming

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