American Gothic

Grant Wood, 1930

American Gothic is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 5 colors taken from American Gothic by Grant Wood (1930): #A7B8AC, #CCA16F, #AB8658, #685E49, #1C1A19. Its most readable text pair is #A7B8AC on #1C1A19 (WCAG 8.33:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted warm earthy monochrome

Colors sampled from the public-domain work with k-means clustering in OKLab.

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#A7B8AC	167 184 172	(0.7660 0.0253 155.0)	38/19/34/3
#CCA16F	204 161 111	(0.7371 0.0835 70.2)	18/37/60/6
#AB8658	171 134 88	(0.6447 0.0770 71.8)	27/42/67/18
#685E49	104 94 73	(0.4855 0.0344 85.5)	49/47/63/41
#1C1A19	28 26 25	(0.2197 0.0037 48.6)	72/68/63/83