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The Night Watch

Rembrandt, 1642

The Night Watch is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 5 colors taken from The Night Watch by Rembrandt (1642): #B99757, #986A25, #6C4A1B, #442C10, #131107. Its most readable text pair is #B99757 on #131107 (WCAG 6.87:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Coffeemutedwarmearthymonochrome

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#B99757185 151 87(0.6938 0.0920 82.1)24/36/71/12
#986A25152 106 37(0.5596 0.1019 73.4)30/52/92/27
#6C4A1B108 74 27(0.4373 0.0773 71.8)38/59/93/49
#442C1068 44 16(0.3160 0.0544 67.6)48/66/86/70
#13110719 17 7(0.1766 0.0197 98.6)73/68/69/90

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.1).

Best text pair

AA · 6.87:1
The quick brown fox#B99757 on #131107 · WCAG 6.87:1 · APCA Lc -48.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 11.1
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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