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William Segar Palette 3

Penumbral Stone
Penumbral Partial shadow - the transitional zone between light and full dark, soft-edged.
Stone Neutral warm gray - the color of uncut limestone or granite, balanced and earthy.
William Segar Palette 3 - Penumbral Stone

Color Composition

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Colors
#5C685D
18.10%
#7B8D83
15.90%
#232D25
15.60%
#3A463E
9.30%
#141A18
8.40%
#777960
8.30%
#9EB4AC
7.90%
#474130
7.20%
#615236
5.30%
#ABB096
3.90%

Palette Analysis

William Segar occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. Only 5.3% is devoted to #615236, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. Value range is moderate at 54 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of William Segar's full range of palettes, group 3 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.

Example use cases

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

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