Introducing The Palette Studio. Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within. Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes. 🔗👇

Félix Vallotton, The Ball. 1899. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood. A red ball, a yellow hat, a pool of sunlight.

Albert H. Munsell, Atlas of the Munsell Color System. 1915.

Nicolas Lancret, Wall Panels. c. 1723–27. Oil on canvas. Lancret painted these panels for a room in a Paris house, to hang above the chair rails and between the doors and windows.

Wassily Kandinsky, Flowing (Coulant), likely 1931.

Red cabbage can tell you how acidic something is. Its purple pigments, called anthocyanins, turn its juice red in acid and blue or green in alkaline conditions. Tight curls, pale veins and purple edges, with its palettes.

Johannes Itten. Tape Ball Color Space, 1919-20. Itten trying to solve a strange problem around 1919, if color has relationships, could you give those relationships a physical shape? His answer was to move beyond the color wheel and into three dimensions, eventually producing his famous 12-hue color sphere in 1921.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Design for Liberty magazine cover. 1927.

Ellsworth Kelly, Colors for a Large Wall. 1951. Oil on canvas, sixty-four panels.

Robert Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. 1912. Ridgway made a color dictionary for identifying birds. Each color was painted on large sheets from one mixture, then cut into small samples so copies would match.

Mark Rothko, Harvard Mural studies. 1962. Watercolor on construction paper.

William Merritt Chase, Portrait of Dora Wheeler. 1882-83.

Pierre Rousseau, Decorative Panels. 1790s. Oil on canvas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours). 1810. Plate mapping color sequences on a grid to compare Natur and Wunsch (Nature and Desire).

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie Panam 112. 2010. Silkscreen on aluminum and PVC

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Induction Chromatique. 1974-1975. Silkscreen on paper

Buckminster Fuller, 4D Tower Time Interval 1 Meter. 1928. Gouache and graphite on paper.

Adolf Wölfli, The Kander Valley in the Bernese Oberland. 1926. Pencil and colored pencil on paper