Meditations in Color

Building the largest archive of color across visual culture. Art history to the movie poster, every work read for its palette. Color flâneur. By @Pixel0Symphony

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Introducing The Palette Studio.

Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within.

Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes.

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@DiscussingFilm A closer look at the colors behind this story

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@DiscussingFilm The red, the shadows, the mood

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Mark Rothko, No. 4 (Untitled). 1953.

Oil on canvas.

Rothko made this canvas almost nine feet tall and only about four feet wide.

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@GenshinImpact A closer look at the trailer’s colors

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@Genshin_7 Different moods, told through color

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@Genshin_7 Exploring the colors behind these character designs

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@Genshin_7 A closer look at Valerie’s palette

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@Genshin_7 A little color study of Mitiya

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Edgar Degas, Four Dancers. About 1899. Oil on canvas. Orange-red bodices against a field of green.

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Nobody knows who she was, or whether Vermeer used a real model. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a tronie, a study of a character rather than a portrait of an identified person.

The dark background was once a green curtain but its translucent paint has changed over the centuries. Researchers have also found tiny eyelashes that are now difficult to see.

Her pearl has no visible hook or outline. Vermeer suggests its shape with touches of white paint, including a reflection of her collar.

And the blue in her headscarf began as lapis lazuli from what is now Afghanistan, ground into ultramarine, a pigment often described as more precious than gold in the 17th ce.

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@THE_JOJO_WORLD Diavolo, through color

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@ZZZ_JP The colors behind Sunbringer

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@Palmeiras The colors of the road to the final

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@Flamengo A closer look at Flamengo through color

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Félix Vallotton, The Ball. 1899. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood.

A red ball, a yellow hat, a pool of sunlight.

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Albert H. Munsell, Atlas of the Munsell Color System. 1915.

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Nicolas Lancret, Wall Panels. c. 1723–27.
Oil on canvas.

Lancret painted these panels for a room in a Paris house, to hang above the chair rails and between the doors and windows.

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@DiscussingFilm Muted tones, with a little mystery

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Wassily Kandinsky, Flowing (Coulant), likely 1931.

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@NASA @chandraxray A cosmic composition in color