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William Sergeant Kendall · n.d.

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Chartreuse
73% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.4:1

Lamp black
10% of the image
Black · text contrast 19.2:1

Khaki
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1

Olive brown
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.1:1

Olive
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1

Bistre
2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.0:1

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 Sergeant Kendall
1869–1938
Date: n.d.
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: watercolor
Size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (38.7 x 28.6 cm)
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Yellow · lightness 62, colourfulness 49

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Smithsonian Open Access marks it CC0 (descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access=CC0; online_media.media[0].usage.a). Europe: Artist died 1938: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2009. Last checked 2026-10-31 (Smithsonian Open Access usage is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

Charles. Dana. Gibson./Is. One. of. the. Illustrators./in. this. Month's/Scribner.s./

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