The Art Nouveau color palette The colors which characterize the Art Nouveau style are soft shades of gray, mustard yellow, browns, olives, and lilacs. The walls typically feature beautiful and often extravagant prints.

Like its subject matter, art nouveau's color palette takes inspiration from nature with rich dark browns, pale sage green, soft blues and lots of creams. It's muted but not boring. And that's because these colors are used in elaborate, intricate floral patterns and motifs made famous by artist William Morris.

Curved, organic and meandering lines, asymmetry, vines, flora and fauna are all indicative of the art nouveau style. In terms of the art nouveau colour palette, some of the most used colours include dark reds, yellows, brown, dark blues and an olive green (these can of course vary).

Colour schemes - are quite muted and sombre and became known as 'greenery yallery' - mustard, sage green, olive green, and brown. Team these with lilac, violet and purple, peacock blue. Mackintosh experimented with all-white interiors. Walls - can either be painted in one of the colours of the palette or off-white, or papered.