A chapel interior with striped marble arches: color palette
A mid-toned image anchored by night wine (27%), with taupe grey as the light (24%) and burnt umber as the charge (41%). The clearest relationship is value: night wine sits far darker than ash grey, so the light reads bright.
Burnt umber, night wine and taupe grey
- Anchor: Night wine #260F0D, 27%. Night wine is the darkest group, about 27% of the image, scattered through the image. It carries a warm hue, so the shadows read as color. It sits far darker than ash grey, a strong value range that makes the light read bright.
- Energy: Burnt umber #6F3221, 41%. Burnt umber has the highest chroma in this palette, about 41% of the image, scattered through the image. It shares the temperature of the rest of the palette, so its force comes from chroma. At about 41% it covers as much of the image as the Anchor or more, so it reads as a major color as well as the charge.
- Atmosphere: Taupe grey #9D846F, 24%. Taupe grey is the lighter quiet group, about 24% of the image, scattered through the image. Its chroma is muted, so it reads as light and air. It gives the eye relief between the stronger roles.
- Anomaly: Ash grey #BBB3A3, 8%. Ash grey shares a hue family with the rest of the palette and stands apart in value, lighter than every other role, about 8% of the image, in the lower middle. In images with one or two hue families, Iris looks for this kind of outlier.
Burnt umber, the Energy, is the largest group at about 41% of the image.
Against the framework starting point of 55, 20, 20 and 5, this image gives the Anchor 28 points less.
Iris measures the colors in your image and gives you the palette in proportion. Your photo stays on your device.
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