Dark Frame sets the weight of the palette in warmth and creativity, and Bronze Ink is the swatch that breaks rank: a single brown that stops the set reading as one note. Dark Frame to Lithograph Cream spans 80 points of lightness, so the palette can carry its own hierarchy without reaching for a second one. Nouveau Gold is the loudest thing in the set and every swatch beside it is warm too, which gives the palette no way to cool a page down and no colour to rest an eye on.
Dark Frame a deep rust or umber, orange's heat banked into something earthy and lived-in.
Bronze Ink grounds a palette: stability, reliability, the color of wood, soil, and things built to last.
Nouveau Gold reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Botanical a soft moss-yellow, novelty settled into something more natural.
Lithograph Cream a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Nature set loose in iron and glass - Art Nouveau dissolved the straight line into whiplash curves, tendrils, and organic ornament, from Victor Horta's Brussels townhouses to Hector Guimard's Paris Métro entrances and Gaudí's molten Catalan facades.
Explore the full Art Nouveau style guideIts decade on the timeline · 1890s