The Lab · Art Desk

Steal the colour, not the painting.

Search the Art Institute of Chicago's open collection, pull the actual colour out of a real work, and keep it in a palette for a poster, a stage wash, a coin finish or a flyer.

What this is for. Reference and colour, credited. A hex code is not somebody's painting, and a mood board is not a merch design. If you are going to print or sell anything, filter to public domain and check the rights yourself — that filter is a starting point, not legal clearance.

Your palette

Saved on this device only. Nothing here is sent anywhere.

Credit, every time. Collection data and images come from the Art Institute of Chicago's public API and its IIIF image service. The works belong to their artists and to the museum. Brokehella did not make them, does not own them, and will not publish one as if we did. If a piece ends up informing something we make, the artist and the AIC get named.