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❄️ Winter Color Palette 1996

Cool blues, icy whites, deep evergreen, silver frost, and the quiet drama of bare branches against a pale sky.

1995 1996 1997

Winter is a study in restraint. The season drains the landscape of warmth and reduces its palette to essentials: the deep, deliberate green of pine and spruce against a white field, the blue shadow that forms in the hollow of a snowdrift, the near-black of bare birch branches traced against a pale sky, the brief, vivid red of holly berries or rose hips — vivid precisely because of their rarity in a world gone grey. Ice on a window turns the light silver. Frost turns grass to glass. The sky moves through a sequence of whites and blue-greys that can look almost lavender at dusk. There is beauty in this palette, but it is a quiet beauty that asks you to look carefully and move slowly.

The 6 colors

RGB (52-64-80)

#344050

A dark, muted blue with a quiet presence.

The Dejected Carbon down Stifling →

RGB (116-87-203)

#7457cb

This light violet sits at the moderate end of its family.

The Fixed Brook unto Earning →

RGB (47-86-79)

#2f564f

A dark, muted cyan with a quiet presence.

What the Desperate Abyss round Stilling →

RGB (89-41-38)

#592926

A dark, moderate red with a quiet presence.

Muted Abyss onto Plummeting →

RGB (50-73-82)

#324952

A dark, muted blue with a quiet presence.

The Cave till Nightbound Bleakening →

RGB (106-100-190)

#6a64be

A light, moderate blue with a quiet presence.

When Plain Bog via Leaning →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --winter-1: #344050;  --winter-2: #7457cb;  --winter-3: #2f564f;  --winter-4: #592926;  --winter-5: #324952;  --winter-6: #6a64be;}

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