Colour story
Where this came from.
Abstract painting: cream and black shapes on deep teal, with one amber sliver.
SAMPLED — no values printed on the image.
Where each colour came from
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Fabric A
#090909sampled, 18.2% — the black shapes -
Fabric B
#DAC9B3sampled, 36.3% of the image -
Fabric C
#334C48sampled, 27.2% — the teal ground -
Fabric D
#C7B49Csampled, 3.7% -
Fabric E
#252C2Bsampled, 11.6% -
Fabric F
#BC6D1Csampled, 1.0% — the amber sliver. Small in the painting and the whole point of it, which is why it is mapped to the 4% accent rather than dropped.
What it does to the seams
Checked against every fabric pair, weighted by how much seam length each pair actually shares in this quilt. 2.36% of the seam length falls below the contrast where a seam stops reading, and 17.72% is soft.
- Seams that will not read
- 2.4%
- Soft seams
- 17.72%
- Lightness range
- 74
- Reads as
- Shapes
- 3 of the 6 fabrics are dark. Two darks compete; one dark punctuates.
- B-D carries 2.36% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.24 — 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.
