The Great Wave off Kanagawa color palette
Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830–32. The six main colors of the print, with their codes and how much of it each one covers.
The six colors
- Cream#F2DFB9RGB 242, 223, 18511%
- Charcoal#3B4143RGB 59, 65, 6710%
- Denim#2D5B7FRGB 45, 91, 1278%
- Biscuit#EAB998RGB 234, 185, 1526%
- Pewter#85857ERGB 133, 133, 1266%
- Putty#A5A293RGB 165, 162, 1474%
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
Cream leads with 11% of the print, and charcoal follows with 10%.
Light and dark are far apart: from cream at value 9 down to charcoal at 3, on a scale from 0 (black) to 10 (white). That range gives the print its strong contrast.
It leans warm: warm colors cover 39%, cool ones 17%.
Denim and biscuit 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.
