Utagawa Hiroshige, Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River: color palette
Utagawa Hiroshige, Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River, from Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.
A light image anchored by iron grey (12%), with pale straw as the light (59%) and sage green as the charge (26%). The clearest relationship is temperature: cool sage green against warmer pale straw.
Pale straw and sage green, with poppy red
- Anchor: Iron grey #413D2E, 12%. Iron grey is the darkest group, about 12% of the image, near the center. It sits close to neutral, so the hue in this palette comes from the lighter roles. It sits far darker than pale straw, a strong value range that makes the light read bright.
- Energy: Sage green #72A08B, 26%. Sage green has the highest chroma of the main groups, about 26% of the image, in the lower middle. Only the small Anomaly is more saturated. It is cool against the warmer pale straw, so temperature adds to its charge. At about 26% 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: Pale straw #E5DCC0, 59%. Pale straw is the lightest quiet group, about 59% of the image, across most of the image. Its chroma is muted, so it reads as light and air. As the largest group, it sets the mood of the image.
- Anomaly: Poppy red #D25E65, 3%. Poppy red sits 72° of hue from the nearest other role, about 3% of the image, scattered through the image. It meets Iris's Anomaly rule: at least 40° of hue from the other roles, between 2% and 15% of the image. Small and separate in hue, it reads as an accent.
Pale straw, the Atmosphere, is the largest group at about 59% of the image.
Against the framework starting point of 55, 20, 20 and 5, this image gives the Anchor 43 points less.
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