Cool blues, icy whites, deep evergreen, silver frost, and the quiet drama of bare branches against a pale sky.
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.
#6d79ba
RGB(109, 121, 186) · hsl(231, 36%, 58%)
A light, muted blue with a quiet presence.
Bronzed Arch off the Drawing →#6555aa
RGB(101, 85, 170) · hsl(251, 33%, 50%)
muted and medium — a blue that reads as open.
Moderate Bay without the Working →#68bb9c
RGB(104, 187, 156) · hsl(158, 38%, 57%)
A light, muted cyan with a quiet presence.
Olive Atoll Since Cradling →#ca8e8c
RGB(202, 142, 140) · hsl(2, 37%, 67%)
A light, muted red with a quiet presence.
Radiant Blaze beneath Fluttering →#4c679a
RGB(76, 103, 154) · hsl(219, 34%, 45%)
This medium blue sits at the muted end of its family.
Homespun Border Around the Lining →#9b9adb
RGB(155, 154, 219) · hsl(241, 47%, 73%)
A moderate blue: very light, considered, and steady.
The Shining Beam onto Breathing →:root { --winter-1: #6d79ba; --winter-2: #6555aa; --winter-3: #68bb9c; --winter-4: #ca8e8c; --winter-5: #4c679a; --winter-6: #9b9adb;}