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❄️ Winter Color Palette 2015

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

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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 (51-87-102)

#335766

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

Lasting Alcove amid Knotting →

RGB (101-91-134)

#655b86

A medium, muted blue with a quiet presence.

Unhurried Alcove up Flowing →

RGB (71-205-164)

#47cda4

moderate and medium — a cyan that reads as open.

What Rich Bluff amidst Engraving →

RGB (114-77-75)

#724d4b

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

The Mild Atoll from Measuring →

RGB (165-180-192)

#a5b4c0

A muted blue: light, considered, and steady.

The Elysian Aura for Enkindling →

RGB (45-38-100)

#2d2664

A moderate blue: dark, considered, and steady.

What Careworn Burial upon Fracturing →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --winter-1: #335766;  --winter-2: #655b86;  --winter-3: #47cda4;  --winter-4: #724d4b;  --winter-5: #a5b4c0;  --winter-6: #2d2664;}

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