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Still Life Palette 28

Shadowed Caramel
Shadowed Low-key - values weighted toward shadow, the palette of dim interiors and overcast skies.
Caramel Warm mid-brown - the color of cooked sugar, smooth and amber-toned.
Still Life Palette 28 - Shadowed Caramel

Color Composition

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Colors
#301F17
16.70%
#663D1F
14.40%
#514430
13.00%
#9B7436
11.60%
#82744E
11.20%
#C3AC6F
8.00%
#CFA138
7.50%
#A0592C
7.40%
#B8B3A0
5.90%
#AD371E
4.30%

Palette Analysis

Mid-key values give still life its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The highest-chroma note - #A0592C - appears at just 7.4%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The value range of 51 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette reads as an Impressionist one - light-biased, chromatically direct, and built on temperature contrast rather than value opposition.

Example use cases

  • film & entertainment
  • fine dining
  • spirits branding
  • menswear
  • theater design

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