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Robert Home Palette 3

Tenebrous Bister
Tenebrous Dark and murky - low-key values with obscured form, Baroque in temperament.
Bister Dark warm brown - a traditional ink and wash pigment made from wood soot.
Robert Home Palette 3 - Tenebrous Bister

Color Composition

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Colors
#191713
28.20%
#202014
21.00%
#2A2016
14.60%
#3C2D1A
12.80%
#574832
6.50%
#7E653C
4.80%
#AC8E4F
4.50%
#5F3618
3.00%
#DAC28A
2.40%
#9A612F
2.00%

Palette Analysis

Robert Home works almost entirely in the lower half of the value scale, privileging depth over brilliance. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #191713 at 28.2% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. At 2.4%, #DAC28A carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 61 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This tonal restraint is characteristic of the Robert Home approach: colour serves light, not the reverse. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Robert Home's complete body of work advances.

Example use cases

  • theater design
  • jewelry brands
  • tobacco-adjacent retail
  • event branding
  • film & entertainment

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