Drum Bridge and Yuhi Hill at Meguro color palette
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. The five main colors of the print, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Parchment#DED5C1RGB 222, 213, 19351%
- Stone#949B99RGB 148, 155, 15327%
- Pewter#757776RGB 117, 119, 1188%
- Camel#CA9471RGB 202, 148, 1134%
- Denim#466C93RGB 70, 108, 147under 1%
Shares are of the whole print, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Parchment rules this print: it covers 51%, more than all the other colors together.
Camel is the accent: only 4% of the print, but enough to lift the rest.
Its values run from 4 (denim) to 9 (parchment), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (95% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Camel and denim 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.
