huebic

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485

The Birth of Venus is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 5 colors taken from The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1485): #E0D5B6, #CAA86B, #A27441, #964E2E, #242219. Its most readable text pair is #E0D5B6 on #242219 (WCAG 10.9:1, 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

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#E0D5B6224 213 182(0.8738 0.0430 90.8)14/14/33/1
#CAA86B202 168 107(0.7484 0.0885 81.3)20/32/63/7
#A27441162 116 65(0.5947 0.0890 67.5)28/50/77/22
#964E2E150 78 46(0.5053 0.1067 43.6)29/71/84/27
#24221936 34 25(0.2511 0.0165 97.0)68/62/71/80

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.7).

Best text pair

AAA · 10.9:1
The quick brown fox#E0D5B6 on #242219 · WCAG 10.9:1 · APCA Lc -78.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

Palettes like The Birth of Venus

all palettes →