01 · Warm earth
Terracotta
A sun-warmed red-orange earth for pottery, architecture, leather, and natural skin accents.
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Warm earthMuted greenDeep redFlesh and portraitBlue greenDeep blueMuted redEarth yellowWarm orangeWarm redWarm pinkLight violetMuted violetDeep violetNeutralChromatic darkWarm lightRed earthDeep greenLight greenLight blueMuted blueBrownEarth neutralLight red
02 · Muted green
Sage Green
A quiet gray-green suited to foliage, interiors, uniforms, and understated natural palettes.
See the recipe →03 · Deep red
Burgundy
A dark wine red with controlled violet depth for fabric, flowers, leather, and shadows.
See the recipe →04 · Flesh and portrait
Warm Light Skin Tone
A flexible warm light midtone intended as a portrait starting point, not a universal skin color.
See the recipe →05 · Flesh and portrait
Cool Light Skin Tone
A muted rosy midtone for cool portrait passages and indirect light.
See the recipe →06 · Muted green
Olive Green
A yellow-led natural green for foliage, military subjects, landscapes, and aged surfaces.
See the recipe →08 · Blue green
Turquoise
A bright, light blue-green for water, jewelry, decorative accents, and tropical palettes.
See the recipe →09 · Deep blue
Navy Blue
A restrained near-black blue for fabric, shadows, graphic accents, and night scenes.
See the recipe →10 · Muted red
Dusty Rose
A softened rose pink for florals, textiles, interiors, and gentle portrait transitions.
See the recipe →11 · Earth yellow
Mustard Yellow
A deep, muted yellow for vintage palettes, fabric, foliage, and food illustration.
See the recipe →12 · Warm orange
Burnt Orange
A dark, earthy orange for autumn foliage, rusted surfaces, ceramics, and warm accents.
See the recipe →13 · Warm red
Coral
A lively pink-orange balanced for florals, graphics, marine subjects, and warm highlights.
See the recipe →14 · Warm pink
Salmon
A softened orange-pink for skin accents, florals, food, and warm decorative palettes.
See the recipe →15 · Light violet
Lavender
A cool, subdued violet for flowers, distant planes, interiors, and soft shadow color.
See the recipe →16 · Muted violet
Plum
A dark red-violet with earthy restraint for fruit, fabric, florals, and dramatic shadows.
See the recipe →17 · Deep violet
Aubergine
A near-black eggplant violet that keeps a subtle red-purple identity in the light.
See the recipe →18 · Neutral
Warm Gray
A useful brown-violet gray for stone, interiors, portrait grounds, and soft shadows.
See the recipe →19 · Neutral
Cool Gray
A restrained blue-gray for metal, sky, architecture, cool shadows, and interface illustration.
See the recipe →20 · Chromatic dark
Charcoal
A deep neutral with more life than tube black for shadows, line work, stone, and metal.
See the recipe →21 · Warm light
Cream
A gentle warm off-white for highlights, interiors, paper, ceramics, and vintage surfaces.
See the recipe →22 · Warm light
Ivory
A low-chroma warm white for bone, stone, fabric, paper, and subtle highlight variation.
See the recipe →23 · Earth yellow
Yellow Ochre
A practical approximation of classic ochre using a basic palette when a single-pigment earth yellow is unavailable.
See the recipe →24 · Red earth
Rust
A dark iron-oxide red-orange for weathering, brick, leather, soil, and autumn subjects.
See the recipe →25 · Deep green
Forest Green
A dark, restrained green for dense foliage, uniforms, landscapes, and natural shadows.
See the recipe →26 · Light green
Mint Green
A light, fresh blue-green for decorative work, highlights, ceramics, and stylized foliage.
See the recipe →27 · Light blue
Cerulean Sky
A clear daylight blue suitable for open sky, water, painted signage, and cool highlights.
See the recipe →28 · Muted blue
Slate Blue
A gray blue for stone, distant landscape, metal, textiles, and cool architectural color.
See the recipe →29 · Brown
Sepia Brown
A transparent-looking warm dark brown for drawing effects, glazing, wood, leather, and aged imagery.
See the recipe →30 · Chromatic dark
Chromatic Black
A near-black mixed without tube black, designed to retain adjustable warm or cool undertones.
See the recipe →31 · Earth neutral
Khaki
A subdued yellow-brown neutral for fabric, uniforms, dry grass, interiors, and weathering.
See the recipe →32 · Blue green
Petrol Blue
A dark, muted cyan-blue for interiors, vehicles, fashion, water, and graphic palettes.
See the recipe →33 · Light red
Blush Pink
A very light, warm neutral pink for subtle florals, portraits, interiors, and porcelain.
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