Afternoon Tea Party 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

Shares are of the whole print, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.

Cream leads with 37% of the print, and deep mole follows with 13%.

Sage is the accent: only 4% of the print, but enough to lift the rest.

Its values run from 4 (deep mole) to 8 (cream), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.

It leans warm: warm colors cover 73%, cool ones 6%.

Fawn and blue sit on opposite sides of the color wheel, so each makes the other look stronger (see complementary colors).

Each color beside its value, from light to dark. Painters check this to see the print’s structure without its colors.

Cream 8

Sage 7

Fawn 6

Blue 5

Deep mole 4

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.