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Plum Garden at Kameido color palette

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. The six main colors of the print, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.

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Utagawa Hiroshige, Plum Garden at Kameido, 1857. Art Institute of Chicago, public domain.

The six colors

  1. Mole#5A564ERGB 90, 86, 7830%
  2. Linen#EACFB0RGB 234, 207, 17622%
  3. Persimmon#E88F6FRGB 232, 143, 11119%
  4. Lichen#55826FRGB 85, 130, 11116%
  5. Cream#FDEED4RGB 253, 238, 2127%
  6. Storm#475D6ERGB 71, 93, 1101%

Colors picked by hand by the painter Neli Chaneva. Shares are of the whole print, rounded. Make your own palette from any picture with Image to Palette.

How the colors work

Mole leads with 30% of the print, and linen follows with 22%.

Its values run from 4 (mole) to 9 (cream), on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white): a middle range, neither hard nor hazy.

It leans warm: warm colors cover 51%, cool ones 18%.

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.

Cream 9
Linen 8
Persimmon 7
Lichen 5
Mole 4
Storm 4

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