Human Palette (extended) palette

March 18, 2023 10 min 11 s

The densified canonical shade set (#112 decision 9): the 25 human-palette anchors fixed plus 99 Lloyd-relaxed extras on the Tartan Dictionary fine grid, each named as a roman tone of its anchor (base = SplitTone(code)). Generated by cmd/shadefill (research/colour-shade-fill); the quantiser snaps here first, then takes the shade's human anchor - two short hops instead of one unbounded one..

Print it: the Human Palette (extended) shade card (PDF) — every shade as a 24 mm swatch with its code, name and the reference values to dye against.

These are not named colours, and not a palette to design in. The extended set is the quantiser's internal densification of the human palette — indicative in-between shades, spaced on the fine grid, whose only job is to tell two near-identical dyes apart when one sett carries both. Nothing is named here: a colour you pick still reads as its nearest human-palette anchor (B, never an in-between), the extra only taken as a roman tone (Bi, Bii…).
Treat a shade here as a way of expressing a variant or sett that has no colour palette of its own — nothing more. A sett or variant that genuinely needs these shades to be told apart should be recorded as a variant, not pinned to an extended-palette code.

And plotted over the fine grid in three illuminance layers — light, mid and dark. Each wheel is one lightness layer plotted in OKLab's own dimensions: the angle is hue — red at the top, then clockwise through orange and brown, yellow, green, blue and purple, the wheel's jog order — and the radius is chroma, with rings every 0.05. The faint grey dots are the fine grid at that lightness; the red dashed line is the dyeable limit. Hover a dot for its code, name and hex. The small dots are the human palette, the full dots this palette's own shades — so you can read how it lands among the named colours.

The shades

Each shade in OKLCh — lightness L, chroma C and hue h (degrees). The small number under each is that axis's fine-grid index: the lattice level, chroma ring and snapped hue angle that together make the shade's grid code.

Shade	Code	Name	Family	Ref	sRGB	L	C	h
`#F7F7F7`	`W`	W	White · Grey · Black	39-00	`#F7F7F7`	0.976 ₉₇	0.000 ₀	—
`#E8E3F5`	`Wi`	Wi	White · Grey · Black	37-01-300	`#E8E3F5`	0.925 ₉₂	0.025 ₂	299° ₃₀₀
`#A5BBB6`	`LBiii`	LBiii	White · Grey · Black	31-01-180	`#A5BBB6`	0.774 ₇₇	0.025 ₂	180° ₁₈₀
`#AB9B8F`	`LBvi`	LBvi	White · Grey · Black	28-01-060	`#AB9B8F`	0.700 ₆₉	0.026 ₃	59° ₀₆₀
`#6F7464`	`Ni`	Ni	White · Grey · Black	22-01-120	`#6F7464`	0.550 ₅₄	0.025 ₂	121° ₁₂₀
`#636363`	`N`	N	White · Grey · Black	20-00	`#636363`	0.500 ₄₉	0.000 ₀	—
`#2C3022`	`DYii`	DYii	White · Grey · Black	12-01-120	`#2C3022`	0.301 ₃₀	0.025 ₂	121° ₁₂₀
`#223039`	`DTi`	DTi	White · Grey · Black	12-01-240	`#223039`	0.301 ₃₀	0.025 ₂	237° ₂₃₇
`#1D1926`	`DTiv`	DTiv	White · Grey · Black	09-01-300	`#1D1926`	0.224 ₂₂	0.026 ₃	298° ₂₉₇
`#0F1206`	`DYiv`	DYiv	White · Grey · Black	07-01-120	`#0F1206`	0.175 ₁₇	0.024 ₂	120° ₁₂₀
`#010101`	`Ki`	Ki	White · Grey · Black	03-00	`#010101`	0.067 ₇	0.000 ₀	—
`#000000`	`K`	K	White · Grey · Black	00-00	`#000000`	0.000 ₀	0.000 ₀	—
`#F5CAC4`	`LRv`	LRv	Red	35-02-028	`#F5CAC4`	0.874 ₈₇	0.050 ₅	27° ₀₂₇
`#FF9BA9`	`LRi`	LRi	Red	32-05-012	`#FF9BA9`	0.796 ₇₉	0.120 ₁₂	11° ₀₁₂
`#FF9C97`	`LR`	LR	Red	32-05-023	`#FF9C97`	0.793 ₇₈	0.119 ₁₂	23° ₀₂₄
`#FF9974`	`LRii`	LRii	Red	32-06-038	`#FF9974`	0.781 ₇₇	0.133 ₁₃	41° ₀₄₂
`#DFA2B4`	`LPi`	LPi	Red	31-03-000	`#DFA2B4`	0.775 ₇₇	0.076 ₇	360° ₀₀₀
`#FF6915`	`LOii`	LOii	Red	28-08-043	`#FF6915`	0.700 ₆₉	0.200 ₂₀	43° ₀₄₂
`#EC6AAA`	`LPiii`	LPiii	Red	28-07-352	`#EC6AAA`	0.700 ₆₉	0.174 ₁₇	352° ₃₅₁
`#D97572`	`LRvi`	LRvi	Red	27-05-023	`#D97572`	0.674 ₆₇	0.126 ₁₂	23° ₀₂₄
`#E53392`	`Miii`	Miii	Red	25-09-354	`#E53392`	0.625 ₆₂	0.225 ₂₂	354° ₃₅₄
`#E74639`	`Rii`	Rii	Red	25-08-029	`#E74639`	0.624 ₆₂	0.200 ₂₀	29° ₀₃₀
`#B1667E`	`Ovi`	Ovi	Red	24-04-000	`#B1667E`	0.601 ₆₀	0.100 ₁₀	0° ₀₀₀
`#D10097`	`Mi`	Mi	Red	22-11-344	`#D10097`	0.573 ₅₇	0.243 ₂₄	345° ₃₄₅
`#D60020`	`R`	R	Red	22-09-025	`#D60020`	0.552 ₅₅	0.224 ₂₂	25° ₀₂₄
`#CA047B`	`M`	M	Red	22-09-354	`#CA047B`	0.550 ₅₄	0.225 ₂₂	354° ₃₅₄
`#C0365D`	`Mii`	Mii	Red	22-07-008	`#C0365D`	0.550 ₅₄	0.175 ₁₇	8° ₀₀₉
`#B83800`	`Oii`	Oii	Red	21-07-041	`#B83800`	0.526 ₅₂	0.173 ₁₇	38° ₀₃₉
`#C1003E`	`Ri`	Ri	Red	20-09-013	`#C1003E`	0.515 ₅₁	0.206 ₂₀	16° ₀₁₅
`#9E366E`	`Mv`	Mv	Red	20-06-351	`#9E366E`	0.499 ₄₉	0.150 ₁₅	351° ₃₅₁
`#A91B24`	`Riii`	Riii	Red	19-07-025	`#A91B24`	0.475 ₄₇	0.176 ₁₇	25° ₀₂₄
`#8A472A`	`Oiv`	Oiv	Red	19-04-043	`#8A472A`	0.475 ₄₇	0.100 ₁₀	43° ₀₄₂
`#840E36`	`DRiii`	DRiii	Red	16-06-009	`#840E36`	0.399 ₄₀	0.150 ₁₅	9° ₀₀₉
`#502F39`	`DOiii`	DOiii	Red	14-02-000	`#502F39`	0.349 ₃₅	0.050 ₅	0° ₀₀₀
`#620631`	`DRii`	DRii	Red	13-05-000	`#620631`	0.325 ₃₂	0.125 ₁₂	0° ₀₀₀
`#42232D`	`DOii`	DOii	Red	12-02-000	`#42232D`	0.301 ₃₀	0.049 ₅	360° ₀₀₀
`#4D1B1E`	`DRi`	DRi	Red	12-03-019	`#4D1B1E`	0.300 ₃₀	0.076 ₇	19° ₀₁₈
`#55120C`	`DR`	DR	Red	12-04-029	`#55120C`	0.300 ₃₀	0.099 ₁₀	29° ₀₃₀
`#2F110E`	`DOiv`	DOiv	Red	09-02-028	`#2F110E`	0.224 ₂₂	0.050 ₅	28° ₀₂₇
`#FFBE8C`	`LRiv`	LRiv	Orange & Brown	34-04-058	`#FFBE8C`	0.850 ₈₄	0.099 ₁₀	58° ₀₅₇
`#FFB200`	`LYi`	LYi	Orange & Brown	33-08-079	`#FFB200`	0.816 ₈₁	0.170 ₁₇	77° ₀₇₈
`#FF9C34`	`LO`	LO	Orange & Brown	31-06-066	`#FF9C34`	0.779 ₇₇	0.161 ₁₆	62° ₀₆₃
`#D0AE98`	`LRiii`	LRiii	Orange & Brown	31-02-055	`#D0AE98`	0.775 ₇₇	0.050 ₅	55° ₀₅₄
`#E69100`	`LOi`	LOi	Orange & Brown	29-07-074	`#E69100`	0.727 ₇₂	0.159 ₁₆	69° ₀₆₉
`#C37100`	`Oiii`	Oiii	Orange & Brown	25-06-066	`#C37100`	0.626 ₆₂	0.143 ₁₄	63° ₀₆₃
`#A0806B`	`Ov`	Ov	Orange & Brown	25-02-055	`#A0806B`	0.625 ₆₂	0.050 ₅	55° ₀₅₄
`#C65E1F`	`Oi`	Oi	Orange & Brown	24-06-047	`#C65E1F`	0.600 ₅₉	0.151 ₁₅	47° ₀₄₈
`#A65C11`	`O`	O	Orange & Brown	22-05-058	`#A65C11`	0.550 ₅₄	0.125 ₁₂	58° ₀₅₇
`#644734`	`Niii`	Niii	Orange & Brown	17-02-055	`#644734`	0.425 ₄₂	0.050 ₅	54° ₀₅₄
`#583B06`	`DYiii`	DYiii	Orange & Brown	15-03-076	`#583B06`	0.377 ₃₇	0.075 ₇	76° ₀₇₅
`#432700`	`DYi`	DYi	Orange & Brown	12-03-076	`#432700`	0.302 ₃₀	0.066 ₇	69° ₀₆₉
`#412714`	`DO`	DO	Orange & Brown	12-02-055	`#412714`	0.301 ₃₀	0.050 ₅	56° ₀₅₇
`#3A200D`	`DOi`	DOi	Orange & Brown	11-02-055	`#3A200D`	0.274 ₂₇	0.050 ₅	55° ₀₅₄
`#F7E4C1`	`Wii`	Wii	Yellow	37-02-083	`#F7E4C1`	0.925 ₉₂	0.050 ₅	83° ₀₈₄
`#E4DE00`	`LYiv`	LYiv	Yellow	35-08-108	`#E4DE00`	0.877 ₈₇	0.189 ₁₉	108° ₁₀₈
`#FFCD70`	`LYiii`	LYiii	Yellow	35-05-081	`#FFCD70`	0.874 ₈₇	0.125 ₁₂	81° ₀₈₁
`#CDBE86`	`LYii`	LYii	Yellow	32-03-095	`#CDBE86`	0.801 ₇₉	0.075 ₇	95° ₀₉₆
`#DCBC32`	`LY`	LY	Yellow	32-06-095	`#DCBC32`	0.800 ₇₉	0.150 ₁₅	95° ₀₉₆
`#ABA239`	`LYv`	LYv	Yellow	28-05-105	`#ABA239`	0.700 ₆₉	0.125 ₁₂	104° ₁₀₅
`#B07E00`	`Yii`	Yii	Yellow	25-06-085	`#B07E00`	0.627 ₆₂	0.130 ₁₃	81° ₀₈₁
`#889000`	`Yiii`	Yiii	Yellow	25-06-114	`#889000`	0.625 ₆₂	0.140 ₁₄	114° ₁₁₄
`#787E49`	`Yi`	Yi	Yellow	23-03-114	`#787E49`	0.575 ₅₇	0.075 ₇	114° ₁₁₄
`#8B6E00`	`Y`	Y	Yellow	22-05-093	`#8B6E00`	0.551 ₅₅	0.113 ₁₁	90° ₀₉₀
`#3A2B0D`	`DY`	DY	Yellow	12-02-083	`#3A2B0D`	0.300 ₃₀	0.049 ₅	82° ₀₈₁
`#D1F4AD`	`Wiii`	Wiii	Green	37-04-130	`#D1F4AD`	0.925 ₉₂	0.100 ₁₀	129° ₁₂₉
`#9BE6E0`	`LTii`	LTii	Green	35-03-189	`#9BE6E0`	0.874 ₈₇	0.075 ₇	190° ₁₈₉
`#82D67A`	`LG`	LG	Green	32-06-142	`#82D67A`	0.801 ₇₉	0.150 ₁₅	142° ₁₄₁
`#A7CD73`	`LGi`	LGi	Green	32-05-128	`#A7CD73`	0.800 ₇₉	0.125 ₁₂	128° ₁₂₉
`#8BCD1D`	`LGii`	LGii	Green	31-08-130	`#8BCD1D`	0.775 ₇₇	0.200 ₂₀	130° ₁₂₉
`#92C49E`	`LGiii`	LGiii	Green	31-03-152	`#92C49E`	0.775 ₇₇	0.075 ₇	152° ₁₅₃
`#13BFB1`	`LTiii`	LTiii	Green	29-05-186	`#13BFB1`	0.725 ₇₂	0.125 ₁₂	185° ₁₈₆
`#11C574`	`LGiv`	LGiv	Green	29-07-155	`#11C574`	0.725 ₇₂	0.175 ₁₇	155° ₁₅₆
`#00A69C`	`Tiv`	Tiv	Green	25-07-188	`#00A69C`	0.653 ₆₅	0.114 ₁₁	187° ₁₈₆
`#729988`	`Tv`	Tv	Green	26-02-166	`#729988`	0.649 ₆₄	0.050 ₅	166° ₁₆₅
`#1CA242`	`Gi`	Gi	Green	25-07-147	`#1CA242`	0.624 ₆₂	0.174 ₁₇	147° ₁₄₇
`#008B5F`	`Giv`	Giv	Green	21-08-173	`#008B5F`	0.563 ₅₆	0.123 ₁₂	162° ₁₆₂
`#008B2A`	`G`	G	Green	22-07-147	`#008B2A`	0.554 ₅₅	0.170 ₁₇	146° ₁₄₇
`#00784D`	`Gii`	Gii	Green	20-05-163	`#00784D`	0.505 ₅₀	0.115 ₁₁	160° ₁₅₉
`#4F700C`	`Giii`	Giii	Green	20-05-128	`#4F700C`	0.501 ₅₀	0.125 ₁₂	128° ₁₂₉
`#4D5400`	`Nv`	Nv	Green	17-04-115	`#4D5400`	0.425 ₄₂	0.096 ₁₀	115° ₁₁₄
`#005851`	`DTv`	DTv	Green	16-04-187	`#005851`	0.414 ₄₁	0.073 ₇	186° ₁₈₆
`#005B32`	`DGiv`	DGiv	Green	16-05-163	`#005B32`	0.414 ₄₁	0.102 ₁₀	155° ₁₅₆
`#2D4127`	`DGii`	DGii	Green	14-02-138	`#2D4127`	0.350 ₃₅	0.051 ₅	139° ₁₃₈
`#21341B`	`DGi`	DGi	Green	12-02-138	`#21341B`	0.301 ₃₀	0.050 ₅	138° ₁₃₈
`#053819`	`DG`	DG	Green	12-03-152	`#053819`	0.300 ₃₀	0.075 ₇	151° ₁₅₀
`#023535`	`DT`	DT	Green	12-02-194	`#023535`	0.298 ₃₀	0.050 ₅	195° ₁₉₅
`#15270F`	`DGiii`	DGiii	Green	10-02-138	`#15270F`	0.250 ₂₅	0.049 ₅	138° ₁₃₈
`#C5CCEF`	`LBii`	LBii	Blue	34-02-277	`#C5CCEF`	0.851 ₈₄	0.049 ₅	276° ₂₇₆
`#64D1D9`	`LT`	LT	Blue	32-04-202	`#64D1D9`	0.800 ₇₉	0.100 ₁₀	202° ₂₀₁
`#B5BBDE`	`LB`	LB	Blue	32-02-277	`#B5BBDE`	0.799 ₇₉	0.050 ₅	278° ₂₇₉
`#7AC4CF`	`LTi`	LTi	Blue	31-03-208	`#7AC4CF`	0.776 ₇₇	0.075 ₇	208° ₂₀₇
`#6EADE1`	`LBv`	LBv	Blue	29-04-245	`#6EADE1`	0.726 ₇₂	0.100 ₁₀	245° ₂₄₆
`#009ADE`	`Ti`	Ti	Blue	26-06-237	`#009ADE`	0.652 ₆₅	0.146 ₁₄	239° ₂₄₀
`#857EC1`	`Bii`	Bii	Blue	25-04-288	`#857EC1`	0.626 ₆₂	0.100 ₁₀	288° ₂₈₈
`#007FCE`	`Tiii`	Tiii	Blue	22-08-230	`#007FCE`	0.580 ₅₇	0.152 ₁₅	247° ₂₄₆
`#00879F`	`T`	T	Blue	23-04-216	`#00879F`	0.574 ₅₇	0.102 ₁₀	216° ₂₁₆
`#466CC8`	`B`	B	Blue	22-06-265	`#466CC8`	0.551 ₅₅	0.149 ₁₅	265° ₂₆₄
`#006D82`	`Tii`	Tii	Blue	19-05-209	`#006D82`	0.493 ₄₉	0.088 ₉	217° ₂₁₆
`#173ECF`	`Biii`	Biii	Blue	18-09-265	`#173ECF`	0.450 ₄₅	0.225 ₂₂	265° ₂₆₄
`#504F7D`	`Niv`	Niv	Blue	18-03-284	`#504F7D`	0.449 ₄₄	0.075 ₇	284° ₂₈₅
`#0054A0`	`DBiv`	DBiv	Blue	17-07-237	`#0054A0`	0.448 ₄₄	0.141 ₁₄	254° ₂₅₅
`#1F4754`	`DTiii`	DTiii	Blue	15-02-222	`#1F4754`	0.375 ₃₇	0.050 ₅	222° ₂₂₂
`#33289A`	`DBiii`	DBiii	Blue	15-07-278	`#33289A`	0.374 ₃₇	0.176 ₁₇	278° ₂₇₉
`#003D6A`	`DBi`	DBi	Blue	14-04-245	`#003D6A`	0.352 ₃₅	0.096 ₉	248° ₂₄₉
`#082077`	`DB`	DB	Blue	12-06-265	`#082077`	0.300 ₃₀	0.149 ₁₅	265° ₂₆₄
`#272B47`	`DTii`	DTii	Blue	12-02-277	`#272B47`	0.299 ₃₀	0.051 ₅	277° ₂₇₆
`#22144D`	`DBii`	DBii	Blue	10-04-288	`#22144D`	0.250 ₂₅	0.099 ₁₀	288° ₂₈₈
`#CDBEE1`	`LBi`	LBi	Purple	33-02-305	`#CDBEE1`	0.825 ₈₂	0.051 ₅	305° ₃₀₆
`#E4A6DB`	`LP`	LP	Purple	32-04-331	`#E4A6DB`	0.800 ₇₉	0.100 ₁₀	332° ₃₃₃
`#AD9FC0`	`LBiv`	LBiv	Purple	29-02-305	`#AD9FC0`	0.725 ₇₂	0.050 ₅	304° ₃₀₃
`#C682C9`	`LPii`	LPii	Purple	28-05-325	`#C682C9`	0.700 ₆₉	0.126 ₁₂	325° ₃₂₄
`#C742A8`	`Miv`	Miv	Purple	24-08-338	`#C742A8`	0.600 ₅₉	0.201 ₂₀	338° ₃₃₉
`#7F64C8`	`Bi`	Bi	Purple	23-06-294	`#7F64C8`	0.576 ₅₇	0.150 ₁₅	294° ₂₉₄
`#786B8A`	`Nii`	Nii	Purple	22-02-305	`#786B8A`	0.551 ₅₅	0.050 ₅	304° ₃₀₃
`#994FA4`	`Pi`	Pi	Purple	22-06-322	`#994FA4`	0.550 ₅₄	0.149 ₁₅	322° ₃₂₁
`#AA2DBD`	`P`	P	Purple	22-09-322	`#AA2DBD`	0.550 ₅₄	0.225 ₂₂	322° ₃₂₁
`#6E27C8`	`Piii`	Piii	Purple	19-09-297	`#6E27C8`	0.475 ₄₇	0.225 ₂₂	296° ₂₉₇
`#970085`	`Pii`	Pii	Purple	18-09-335	`#970085`	0.464 ₄₆	0.206 ₂₀	335° ₃₃₆
`#660779`	`DPiv`	DPiv	Purple	15-07-319	`#660779`	0.375 ₃₇	0.175 ₁₇	319° ₃₁₈
`#533358`	`DPiii`	DPiii	Purple	15-03-322	`#533358`	0.375 ₃₇	0.073 ₇	322° ₃₂₁
`#4B0B4F`	`DP`	DP	Purple	12-05-325	`#4B0B4F`	0.301 ₃₀	0.125 ₁₂	325° ₃₂₄
`#3F1F44`	`DPi`	DPi	Purple	12-03-322	`#3F1F44`	0.300 ₃₀	0.076 ₈	322° ₃₂₁
`#330130`	`DPii`	DPii	Purple	09-04-331	`#330130`	0.224 ₂₂	0.099 ₁₀	331° ₃₃₀
`#10051C`	`Kii`	Kii	Purple	06-02-305	`#10051C`	0.150 ₁₅	0.050 ₅	304° ₃₀₃