Fireworks at Ryōgoku color palette
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858. The five main colors of the print, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The five colors
- Slate green#626D63RGB 98, 109, 9968%
- Blue#6596A3RGB 101, 150, 16321%
- Ink blue#213756RGB 33, 55, 863%
- Charcoal#454641RGB 69, 70, 653%
- Vermilion#CB5A3ERGB 203, 90, 622%
Shares are of the whole print, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.
How the colors work
Slate green rules this print: it covers 68%, more than all the other colors together.
Vermilion is the accent: only 2% of the print, but strong enough to catch the eye.
Its values run from 2 (ink blue) to 6 (blue), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.
Most of it is near-neutral (74% of these colors): grays, browns and creams that let the few real colors speak.
Blue and vermilion 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.
