Colour story
Where this came from.
Palette card over a photograph of ceramic knobs.
TRANSCRIBED from the card, then verified against the photograph; two further colours sampled to fill six.
Where each colour came from
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Fabric A
#452928printed on the card as "Deep wine". Verified against the image: nearest sampled colour #472A29, distance 4. -
Fabric B
#9DBCD1printed as "Pastel Blue Grey". Verified, distance 2. -
Fabric C
#444449sampled, 2.3% — the dark knob. -
Fabric D
#75362Dprinted as "Burgundy". Verified, distance 1. -
Fabric E
#87A6B9sampled, 2.6% — a lighter blue the card does not name. -
Fabric F
#A49250printed as "Khaki". Verified, distance 3.
What it does to the seams
Checked against every fabric pair, weighted by how much seam length each pair actually shares in this quilt. 4.03% of the seam length falls below the contrast where a seam stops reading, and 30.92% is soft.
- Seams that will not read
- 4.0%
- Soft seams
- 30.92%
- Lightness range
- 51
- Reads as
- Shapes
- Nothing in this palette is lighter than 72. A design of many small pieces needs somewhere for the eye to rest.
- 3 of the 6 fabrics are dark. Two darks compete; one dark punctuates.
- C-D carries 2.36% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.07 — those seams will not read.
- E-F carries 1.67% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.2 — those seams will not read.
Contrast is measured on screen colours, not on fabric. It tells you where the piecing will disappear, not which bolt to buy.
