The Night Café is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 6 colors taken from The Night Café by Vincent van Gogh (1888): #A8944F, #8B7B3A, #776530, #4D6C54, #663525, #2B2824. Its most readable text pair is #A8944F on #2B2824 (WCAG 4.9:1, AA). 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#A8944F on #2B2824 · WCAG 4.9:1 · APCA Lc -41.7
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
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Tritanopia
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