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    Every colour on this site was measured from the rooms themselves. Nothing here was picked from a swatch book, including the floor you are reading this on.

    The studio palette

    Not a brand guideline. This is every colour in the practice's work, clustered and weighted by how much of each room it actually covered — across 10 projects.

    1. #bcb2aa, 23.1 per cent of the room
    2. #4b382a, 19.6 per cent of the room
    3. #927960, 17.9 per cent of the room
    4. #213659, 15.2 per cent of the room
    5. #5e5e60, 15.2 per cent of the room
    6. #bd8b53, 8.9 per cent of the room
    1. #BCB2AA 23.1%
    2. #4B382A 19.6%
    3. #927960 17.9%
    4. #213659 15.2%
    5. #5E5E60 15.2%
    6. #BD8B53 8.9%

    Every project

    How the colour gets here

    Worked through on Harbour flat, which is a real project on this site and not an illustration of one.

    Harbour flat
    1. The photograph, as it was taken. Nothing is corrected first — a corrected photograph measures the correction.

    1. Sampled, small

      The picture is reduced to a 72-pixel thumbnail. Every pixel of it becomes one observation — which is the point of shrinking it, not a shortcut: at full size a single cushion outvotes a wall.

    2. Converted to Lab

      Clustering in RGB puts a sofa and the shadow behind it in the same group, because RGB distance has almost nothing to do with how different two colours look. CIE Lab was built so that distance does.

    3. Clustered into six

      k-means, seeded across the lightness range rather than at random, so the same room measures the same way twice. A random seed gives a different palette every time you press save.

    4. Ordered by how much room it covers

      Not by how striking it is. The largest area in almost every room is a wall, which is why the accent below is never the first swatch.

    #151827
    #D39F66
    #12346B
    #4F494F
    #856444
    #3E74C8

    Everything we have measured

    Each bar is one project. Each band is as wide as that colour is common in the room it came from. Nothing here was arranged.

    What the rooms have in common

    Every swatch from all 10 rooms, weighted by how much of its room it covered. Yellows and ochres come to 47% of the studio's work — which is a fact about us, not a position we took.

    Yellows and ochres
    47.1%
    Neutrals
    36.1%
    Blues
    15.1%
    Reds and terracottas
    1.8%

    Bring us a photograph of the room

    Not a mood board. A photograph of the room as it is now, badly lit, with the wrong sofa in it. That is the thing we can measure, and everything on this site started as one.

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