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Sebastien Bourdon Palette 5

Shadowed Tawny
Shadowed Low-key - values weighted toward shadow, the palette of dim interiors and overcast skies.
Tawny Warm orange-brown - a traditional term for the color of tanned leather or lion fur.
Sebastien Bourdon Palette 5 - Shadowed Tawny

Color Composition

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Colors
#1D1613
17.50%
#3F2318
13.80%
#75848B
13.30%
#98B0BD
9.30%
#64311D
9.10%
#7B6B58
9.00%
#B3A591
8.30%
#544B3D
7.40%
#A67B55
6.90%
#925231
5.40%

Palette Analysis

Sebastien Bourdon occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warmth dominates - the palette of Sebastien Bourdon leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. #925231 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (5.4%). The value range of 53 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 5 of Sebastien Bourdon'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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