Colour story
Where this came from.
Six colour cards photographed over a portrait.
TRANSCRIBED from the cards. The sampled pixels sit a consistent 29-43 away from the printed values, all in the same direction, which is the photograph's light rather than a misreading — so the printed values are used.
Where each colour came from
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Fabric A
#FAE3B1printed on the card. Lightest, so it takes the field. -
Fabric B
#7D2027printed. Darkest by luminance, so it anchors. -
Fabric C
#5FA8C2printed. -
Fabric D
#673C34printed. -
Fabric E
#998731printed. -
Fabric F
#CF5527printed. Most saturated, so it takes the 4% accent.
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 6.79% is soft.
- Seams that will not read
- 4.0%
- Soft seams
- 6.79%
- Lightness range
- 54
- Reads as
- Shapes
- 2 of the 6 fabrics are dark. Two darks compete; one dark punctuates.
- B-D carries 2.36% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.08 — those seams will not read.
- E-F carries 1.67% of the quilt's seams at contrast 1.18 — 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.
