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❄️ Winter Color Palette 1990

Cool blues, icy whites, deep evergreen, silver frost, and the quiet drama of bare branches against a pale sky.

1989 1990 1991

Winter is a study in restraint. The season drains the landscape of warmth and reduces its palette to essentials: the deep, deliberate green of pine and spruce against a white field, the blue shadow that forms in the hollow of a snowdrift, the near-black of bare birch branches traced against a pale sky, the brief, vivid red of holly berries or rose hips — vivid precisely because of their rarity in a world gone grey. Ice on a window turns the light silver. Frost turns grass to glass. The sky moves through a sequence of whites and blue-greys that can look almost lavender at dusk. There is beauty in this palette, but it is a quiet beauty that asks you to look carefully and move slowly.

The 6 colors

RGB (100-150-185)

#6496b9

A light, muted blue with a quiet presence.

What the Alcove onto Frugal Joining →

RGB (58-51-108)

#3a336c

This dark blue sits at the muted end of its family.

Permanent Acre Against Tracing →

RGB (47-146-103)

#2f9267

moderate and medium — a cyan that reads as grounded.

The Arch of Cultivated opposite Distilling →

RGB (103-32-30)

#67201e

A dark, moderate red with a quiet presence.

When Aged Carbon outside Brooding →

RGB (89-138-212)

#598ad4

This light blue sits at the moderate end of its family.

What Sienna Acre for Grounding →

RGB (103-99-146)

#676392

This medium blue sits at the muted end of its family.

The Alcove betwixt Earthbound Tracing →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --winter-1: #6496b9;  --winter-2: #3a336c;  --winter-3: #2f9267;  --winter-4: #67201e;  --winter-5: #598ad4;  --winter-6: #676392;}

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