A material study / 075
Pisces: The February Hearth
Chantilly · Snow wool, blue enamel & smoked oak.
February’s snowbound farm in the Très Riches Heures opens a late-winter palette. White wool and grey felt hold the cold light; blue enamel, hay and smoked wood bring warmth into an imagined farmhouse room.
01 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
02 / Play with the composition
Give the ground room, then place the accent.
Adjust the six colour areas in a screen composition. The illustrated room keeps its original materials and light.
Palette proportions / Total 100%
Starting points
An editable screen composition; the room remains a fixed imagined reference.
Snow Wool: 30%; Grey Felt: 15%; Blue Enamel: 10%; Hay: 10%; Smoked Oak: 20%; Slate Wool: 15%
The source / Art history
A month above the scene.
The Limbourg brothers painted February in 1411–1416. Its snow-covered farm and figures warming by a fire sit below the Sun’s passage from Aquarius into Pisces. Wool, felt, birch, hay and smoked wood translate the seasonal contrast. The blue enamel cup and the imagined interior are modern material choices, not documented objects from the manuscript.
Château de Chantilly · February, folio 2 verso ↗Read the holding institution’s record. No museum photograph or manuscript scan is reproduced here.
The calendar / Computed
The dates, in two frames.
Tropical
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-02-18 15:43 UTC
Next sign: 2026-03-20 14:37 UTC
Sidereal · Lahiri
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-03-14 19:22 UTC
Next sign: 2026-04-14 03:52 UTC
Intervals include the entry and exclude the next boundary. Sidereal offset at ingress: 24.2231° (Lahiri). Sign transitions are refined to one minute. Refinement is computational resolution, not a claim of observational accuracy. Local calendar dates may differ from UTC.
Calculation source and version
Lunologium source revision 4d4d8ecc · astronomy-engine 2.1.19. Generated reference for 2026–2028; year labels identify the year of entry, so a Capricorn interval continues into the next January.
Take away / A constellation card
Pisces, point by point.
This chart uses numerical star data supplied by HEASARC, a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. Hoffleit & Warren, Bright Star Catalogue (1991) · Data-use terms.
North up, east left. Relative visual magnitude controls dot size. Positions use J2000.0 and a local projection with a cosine correction. The connecting lines were authored for this card; constellation boundaries and the Sun’s current position are not drawn. Print on A4 or Letter in portrait orientation.
Read the star coordinates
| Star | HR | Right ascension | Declination |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Psc | 9089 | 0.49 | -6.0142 |
| 113Alp Psc | 596 | 30.5117 | 2.7636 |
| 6Gam Psc | 8852 | 349.2913 | 3.2822 |
| 106Nu Psc | 489 | 25.3579 | 5.4875 |
| 17Iot Psc | 8969 | 354.9875 | 5.6264 |
| 10The Psc | 8916 | 351.9921 | 6.3789 |
| 28Ome Psc | 9072 | 359.8279 | 6.8633 |
| 63Del Psc | 224 | 12.1708 | 7.585 |
| 71Eps Psc | 294 | 15.7358 | 7.89 |
| 110Omi Psc | 510 | 26.3483 | 9.1578 |
| 99Eta Psc | 437 | 22.8708 | 15.3458 |
Tradition / Historical classification
A note on the tradition.
In the traditional classification recorded by Lunologium, Pisces is mutable water, with Jupiter as its traditional ruler. These are cultural categories, separate from the computed solar position and the colours sampled for this study.
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
The February Hearth
February’s snowbound farm in the Très Riches Heures opens a late-winter palette. White wool and grey felt hold the cold light; blue enamel, hay and smoked wood bring warmth into an imagined farmhouse room.
The same palette. Different roles.
Use this palette.
A suggested interface use of the study’s paper and accent. Supporting ink is added for legibility; original palette values stay intact.
#D9D1C3Supporting ink #171615Accent #151C64Inspect application CSS
/* Sourced from Chromologium (https://chromologium.com/studies/pisces) */
/* Suggested application roles; original palette preserved separately. */
:root {
--study-surface: #D9D1C3;
--study-ink: #171615;
--study-accent: #151C64;
--study-accent-ink: #ffffff;
--study-original-1: #D9D1C3; /* Snow Wool */
--study-original-2: #7C7D82; /* Grey Felt */
--study-original-3: #151C64; /* Blue Enamel */
--study-original-4: #8F6F44; /* Hay */
--study-original-5: #563E32; /* Smoked Oak */
--study-original-6: #424F64; /* Slate Wool */
}
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Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
Take away
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Sources & interpretation
A contemporary material tray and imagined warm farmhouse room overlooking snow, informed by a linked historical source. The six screen colours were sampled from this study’s specimen drawer; they are not measured historical pigments.
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions