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Still Life Palette 29

Penumbral Caramel
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Caramel Warm mid-brown - the color of cooked sugar, smooth and amber-toned.
Still Life Palette 29 - Penumbral Caramel

Color Composition

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Colors
#746644
17.70%
#55412C
15.40%
#8E743A
12.70%
#312A20
12.00%
#AD996E
11.60%
#6B4821
8.90%
#4F4E38
8.60%
#C5A052
7.40%
#DDD0AC
3.50%
#A7512C
2.20%

Palette Analysis

still life occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Built on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #6B4821 - appears at just 8.9%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The full value range is 57 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively.

Example use cases

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

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