How I chose the color palette for this site

Choosing a color palette for a web site is hard, at least for me. I've used various color palette tools in the past and they work fine enough but I wanted to use something personal for this blog.

Below is a photo of artwork created by my son Weston. Art is one of his greatest passions and this one has been hanging in our kitchen for a while. I love most of his work but this is one of my favorites. I don't know what the characters mean nor do I care. Something about the color blending and character strokes is just appealing to me.

I decided one day that I wanted to incorporate Weston's art into this site but I knew it would be too difficult for me to reproduce that visual into a digital form. Thankfully I discovered coolors.co, which makes it very easy to extract a color palette from an image. Below is the resulting palette where you can see the reds and shades of gray that make up some of the typography on this site.