A sunlit room with a terracotta tile floor: color palette
A mid-toned image anchored by deep umber (22%), with bone white as the light (20%) and dry scrub as the charge (58%). The clearest relationship is value: deep umber sits far darker than bone white, so the light reads bright.
Dry scrub, deep umber and bone white
- Anchor: Deep umber #3B2216, 22%. Deep umber is the darkest group, about 22% of the image, in the lower right. It carries a warm hue, so the shadows read as color. It sits far darker than bone white, a strong value range that makes the light read bright.
- Energy: Dry scrub #965A39, 58%. Dry scrub has the highest chroma in this palette, about 58% of the image, across most of the image. It shares the temperature of the rest of the palette, so its force comes from chroma. At about 58% 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: Bone white #E3DCD0, 20%. Bone white is the lightest quiet group, about 20% of the image, in the upper left. Its chroma is close to neutral, so it reads as light and air. It gives the eye relief between the stronger roles.
Dry scrub, the Energy, is the largest group at about 58% of the image.
Against the framework starting point of 55, 20, 20 and 5, this image gives the Energy 38 points more.
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