The Starry Night
PaintingsVincent van Gogh, 1889
Archive / Design Library
Color from the canon.
34 hand-picked references — paintings, posters, patterns, billboards, architecture. Open any piece to eyedrop pixels directly, or steal the curated palette at a glance.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
PaintingsKatsushika Hokusai, c.1831
The Kiss
PaintingsGustav Klimt, 1908
Composition VII
PaintingsWassily Kandinsky, 1913
Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow
PaintingsPiet Mondrian, 1930
The Scream
PaintingsEdvard Munch, 1893
Dance (I)
PaintingsHenri Matisse, 1909
The Ten Largest, No. 3 — Youth
PaintingsHilma af Klint, 1907
Untitled
PaintingsMark Rothko, 1968
Red Canna
PaintingsGeorgia O'Keeffe, 1924
Senecio
PaintingsPaul Klee, 1922
Untitled
PaintingsJean-Michel Basquiat, 1984
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
PostersToulouse-Lautrec, 1891
Champenois Imprimeur
PostersAlphonse Mucha, 1898
Nord Express
PostersA.M. Cassandre, 1927
Riso-print Studio
PostersEtienne Girardet
Editorial Stack
PostersBrandi Redd
Strawberry Thief
PatternsWilliam Morris, 1883
Bauhaus Signet
PatternsOskar Schlemmer, 1922
Geometric Wall
PatternsEtienne Girardet
Color Block
PatternsJoel Filipe
Gradient Glow
PatternsJoel Filipe
Pastel Stairs
PatternsSergey Zolkin
Tokyo Neon
BillboardsAleksandar Pasaric
Manhattan Marquee
BillboardsCarlos Alfonso
Havana Façade
BillboardsFlorian Wehde
Concrete Type
BillboardsSven Mieke
Casa Batlló Façade
ArchitectureAntoni Gaudí, 1906
Salk Institute
ArchitectureLouis Kahn, 1965
Wes Anderson Symmetry
ArchitectureLiam Burnett-Blue
Coastal Cliff Town
ArchitecturePietro De Grandi
Modernist Curve
ArchitectureJoel Filipe
Marble Veins
MinimalJoel Filipe
Aurora
MinimalVincent Guth