Building Colour Palettes: 46 Palettes from Famous Buildings for Photoshop, Illustrator and Procreate

Colour schemes taken from real architecture: forty landmark buildings across the history of architecture plus six colour icons such as La Muralla Roja, Casa Batlló and the Torres de Satélite. Each palette holds six colours from one photograph, ordered from light to dark, ready for diagrams, boards, renders and interiors.

📦 What’s inside

• 46 palettes: six colours each, 276 colours
• Swatch files for every palette: ASE, ACO, Procreate .swatches and GPL
• All-Building-Palettes.ase: every palette in one library, one group per building
• All-Building-Palettes.csv: HEX, RGB and approximate LRV for every colour
• Palette book: 26 pages, A4 and US Letter, with the photograph, building details and colour values

🧩 Formats and compatibility

• ASE: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Affinity
• ACO: Photoshop
• .swatches: Procreate
• GPL: GIMP and Krita
• CSV: spreadsheets and code

🎯 Who it is for

Architecture and interior students and designers who want colour schemes with a story for diagrams, presentation boards, renders and moodboards.

📄 License

Use the files in personal and commercial projects: drawings, renders, collages, presentations, competitions, portfolios and client work. Do not resell, share or redistribute the files themselves.

💡 Good to know

• The colours are the dominant tones in one photograph of each building after leaving out open sky and foliage. Light and camera change how a building looks, so treat them as colours seen in a photograph, not official paint colours. LRV is estimated from the screen colour; check real paint values with the manufacturer.
• Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons, credited in the book.
• Delivered as a download link (Google Drive), 1 ZIP file, about 13 MB, 189 files.