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William Harnett · 1891

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Dark chocolate
65% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.7:1

Olive brown
17% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Dark olive
11% of the image
Brown · text contrast 12.3:1

Tan
4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Forest
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 8.6:1

Honey
1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.0:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: William Harnett
Date: 1891
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56.6 × 68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 3/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · 19th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Black · lightness 19, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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