Interior decoration direction

Afrohemian Courtyard textile color palette

Afrohemian Courtyard is an original palette for collected rooms built from indigo cloth, clay, raffia, turmeric warmth, blackwood, and cream. It is useful for layered cushions, woven rugs, baskets, wall textiles, and upholstery stories that need craft depth without borrowing a proprietary catalogue.

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Interior Decoration

Textile Direction

How to use Afrohemian Courtyard

Best For

  • woven rugs
  • cushions
  • wall textiles
  • collected living rooms

Materials

  • woven cotton
  • raffia
  • jute rug
  • terracotta

Color Roles

  • Use blackwood and indigo for the strongest textile anchors and graphic pattern structure.
  • Use clay and turmeric for cushions, ceramics, accent upholstery, and woven motifs.
  • Use raffia and cream for rugs, curtains, basketry, and visual breathing space.

Color Specs

Palette values and contrast notes

Use these values as digital starting points, then approve final textile standards on the real fabric or substrate.

6 colors
SwatchRoleHEXRGBHSLApprox CMYKText Contrast
Anchor
Depth
Mid tone
Bridge
Ground
Highlight

Developer Handoff

CSS variables

Copy the palette as CSS custom properties.

--palette-1: #171A1A;
--palette-2: #1E3B52;
--palette-3: #8A4F35;
--palette-4: #C7833D;
--palette-5: #D7B66B;
--palette-6: #EFE0C8;

Tailwind v4 theme

Use these tokens as palette utilities like bg-palette-1 and text-palette-1.

Copy the palette as Tailwind v4 theme color tokens.

@theme {
  --color-palette-1: #171A1A;
  --color-palette-2: #1E3B52;
  --color-palette-3: #8A4F35;
  --color-palette-4: #C7833D;
  --color-palette-5: #D7B66B;
  --color-palette-6: #EFE0C8;
}

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