The Starry Night is a muted, cool palette of 6 colors taken from The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889): #B6B264, #7C9B8A, #78909F, #456091, #293A80, #1A1D1D. Its most readable text pair is #B6B264 on #1A1D1D (WCAG 7.71:1, AAA). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 3.4). 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#B6B264 on #1A1D1D · WCAG 7.71:1 · APCA Lc -57.3
Color blindness
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Protanopia
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