Storm clouds over mountain ridges at sunset: color palette
A dark image anchored by night fir (61%), with gunmetal grey as the quiet middle ground (29%) and ember orange as the charge (10%). The clearest relationship is scale: a small amount of strong chroma, about 10%, against a quieter field.
Night fir, gunmetal grey and ember orange
- Anchor: Night fir #202D29, 61%. Night fir is the darkest group, about 61% of the image, across most of the image. It sits close to neutral, so the hue in this palette comes from the lighter roles. It sits clearly darker than ember orange, enough separation to hold the lighter colors forward.
- Energy: Ember orange #E27830, 10%. Ember orange has the highest chroma in this palette, about 10% of the image, in a band across the middle. It shares the temperature of the rest of the palette, so its force comes from chroma. At about 10% it is a small share of the image, which concentrates it.
- Atmosphere: Gunmetal grey #3D4A3E, 29%. Gunmetal grey is the lighter quiet group, about 29% of the image, in a band through the lower third. Its chroma is close to neutral, so it reads as a soft middle ground. It gives the eye relief between the stronger roles.
Night fir, the Anchor, is the largest group at about 61% of the image.
Against the framework starting point of 55, 20, 20 and 5, this image gives the Energy 10 points less.
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