Whistler's Mother

James McNeill Whistler, 1871

Whistler's Mother is a neutral palette of 5 colors taken from Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler (1871): #CEC9C3, #7C7A6A, #5C5636, #3F3E32, #1B1A11. Its most readable text pair is #CEC9C3 on #1B1A11 (WCAG 10.62:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

neutral

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#CEC9C3	206 201 195	(0.8382 0.0100 72.6)	21/19/22/2
#7C7A6A	124 122 106	(0.5766 0.0239 101.3)	48/39/52/25
#5C5636	92 86 54	(0.4504 0.0486 98.9)	54/47/77/45
#3F3E32	63 62 50	(0.3610 0.0199 103.4)	62/54/67/61
#1B1A11	27 26 17	(0.2158 0.0168 102.4)	71/65/71/85