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Paint palettes by room

Each room has its own dynamic — light direction, time of day it gets used, the textures already in the space — and certain palettes simply work better in some rooms than others. Below are 10 room categories, each with a curated set of palettes that suit it.

Categorization is automated based on each palette's average lightness, saturation, and dominant hue. A bedroom-suited palette typically has a higher average lightness and lower saturation; a home-office palette typically has stronger contrast for visual focus; a bathroom palette usually skews into the cyan-blue family. A single palette can appear in multiple rooms when its characteristics fit more than one.