The colour archive

Palettes drawn from life

Every photograph leaves a palette behind. Each one is named for the moment it was found — filter by mood or colour, and tap any swatch to copy it.

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Colour Palette No. 82

Bayonet and Bloom

Stable Fly | Stomoxys calcitrans

Colour Palette No. 81

Not the Flower

Flower Crab Spider | Thomisus

Colour Palette No. 80

Smoked Glass

Crane Fly | Tipulidae

Colour Palette No. 79

Hovering Gold

Hoverfly | Eristalinus taeniops

Colour Palette No. 78

Sheltered Sun

Common Yellow Woodsorrel | Oxalis stricta

Colour Palette No. 77

Sunlit Gazania

Treasure Flower | Gazania

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