The Letter color palette
Mary Cassatt, 1890–91. The five main colors of the print, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Putty#C0B6A8RGB 192, 182, 16845%
- Brown#8A6955RGB 138, 105, 8521%
- Blue#40607CRGB 64, 96, 12418%
- Slate#657F89RGB 101, 127, 13712%
- Charcoal#484441RGB 72, 68, 653%
Shares are of the whole print, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Putty rules this print: it covers 45%, close to half of it.
Its values run from 3 (charcoal) to 7 (putty), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (61% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Brown and blue sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, so each makes the other look stronger (see complementary colors).
The same colors in gray
Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the print’s structure without its colors.
Use this palette
Open the print in Image to Palette to choose more or fewer colors, see the mixing strips, and save the palette for Procreate or Adobe.
