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Noir color palettes

Noir palettes are the detective's office at midnight: blinds-cut charcoal, smoke gray, bone-white shirt and the single red that solves the case. They suit film, photography, true-crime, premium tools — brands that deal in what people hide.

The whole genre rests on the word 'one'. Each palette here permits exactly one saturated hue — the alibi red — and builds everything else from a gray ramp disciplined enough to light a face with three stops.