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…