All the soft summer color palette colors in one place .
Soft Parchment —The Parchment Color That Lives on Old Paper, and Why It Belongs to Soft Summer Hold an old manuscript page up to the light and you will see this parchment color before you can name it. Not white, not beige, not grey — the specific warm, dusted neutral that paper becomes after decades…
Warm Greige —The One Warm-Hued Neutral That Belongs in the Soft Summer Palette, and the Proof Behind It A warm-hued greige in a cool-neutral season sounds like a mistake. The name makes it worse — Warm Greige, placed deliberately inside the Soft Summer palette. But the Munsell reading settles the argument before the eye has…
Soft Fern —The Fern Green That Only Exists When There Is No Sun Every fern colour you see in full sunlight is the wrong shade of green for this palette. Vivid, fresh, yellow-inflected — that is what happens to fern green when the sun reaches it. Remove the sun entirely, put the same frond in…
Blush Clay —The Greyed Dusty Rose That Opens the Other Side of the Soft Summer Palette Blush Clay Color (#D9C8C5): Soft Summer’s Dusty Rose Neutral The previous five posts in this series introduced Soft Summer’s cool-blue and violet neutrals — a family that spans from cyan-blue through to pure violet at the same muted chroma…
Summer Color Palette —Every Sub-Season, Explained Direct Answer — The Summer Color PaletteThe Summer color palette is cool-toned, low-to-medium in saturation, and light-to-medium in depth. All Summer colours share one quality: a cool, blue-pink undertone with no golden warmth. The Summer family has four sub-seasons — Light Summer, True Summer (also called Cool Summer), Soft Summer,…
Muted Sage Green_The Colour Sage Becomes When It Lets the Yellow Go Soft Summer Muted Sage: The Definitive #B8C4BA Color Guide Most people think of sage as a warm colour. That association is correct — for the warm version. The herb itself, the paint colour that sold out three years running, the olive-adjacent shade in…
Soft Summer Dusky Violet: The Ultimate #ACA6B8 Color Guide The Deepest Cool Accent in the Soft Summer Palette, and the One the Arc Has Been Building Toward Every colour family in this palette has had a deepest member. The blue-grey family has Steel Mist. The violet family has been waiting for its own. Dusky Violet,…
Soft Lavender Color —The Pale Lavender belonging to soft summer There is a specific pale lavender colour that stops people cold in a drapting session. It’s not vivid. It’s not even clearly purple. And yet something in the room changes when it goes up. That colour is Soft Lavender — hex #C9C5D3 — and this…
Soft Summer Steel Mist: The Ultimate #A8B4BE Color Guide — A Colour Analyst’s Case for #A8B4BE in the Soft Summer Palette #A8B4BE doesn’t lean toward cyan or violet the way its two siblings do. Measured precisely, it sits exactly between them — the deepest, quietest member of Soft Summer’s blue-grey family, and the one that…
— A Colour Analyst’s Case for #B8BEC9 in the Soft Summer Palette #B8BEC9 reads as an ordinary grey-blue until you measure it. Once you do, it settles into a specific, repeatable position — a textbook Soft Summer slate blue, one value step deeper and one degree more muted than its lighter sibling. Quick answer, if…