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❄️ Winter Color Palette 2010

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

2009 2010 2011

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 (58-72-100)

#3a4864

This dark blue sits at the muted end of its family.

What Copper Bog across Spinning →

RGB (170-165-197)

#aaa5c5

muted and light — a blue that reads as open.

The Weightless Blossom amid the Enlivening →

RGB (69-135-116)

#458774

muted and medium — a cyan that reads as grounded.

What Dependable Alcove above Earning →

RGB (103-38-30)

#67261e

A dark, moderate red with a quiet presence.

When Mourning Cavern down Quaking →

RGB (137-156-225)

#899ce1

moderate and light — a blue that reads as open.

Moonlit Aurora under the Dappling →

RGB (95-70-155)

#5f469b

A muted violet: medium, considered, and steady.

The Level-headed Canyon among Carrying →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --winter-1: #3a4864;  --winter-2: #aaa5c5;  --winter-3: #458774;  --winter-4: #67261e;  --winter-5: #899ce1;  --winter-6: #5f469b;}

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