The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp is a muted, warm, monochrome palette of 5 colors taken from The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt (1632): #D8C4A3, #9C7C5C, #705A44, #3B3429, #170F08. Its most readable text pair is #D8C4A3 on #170F08 (WCAG 11.14:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).
Colors sampled from the public-domain work with k-means clustering in OKLab.
The colors
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#D8C4A3 on #170F08 · WCAG 11.14:1 · APCA Lc -71.9
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
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