Textile Color Swatch

Curated textile palette

Frosted Steel textile color palette

Frosted Steel is a cool greyscale with blue undertones and an icy finish. It is useful for outerwear, technical fabrics, performance capsules, and sleek product interfaces where the palette should feel engineered rather than corporate.

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MerchandisingPerformance Color

Textile Direction

How to use Frosted Steel

Best For

  • technical outerwear
  • performance gear
  • sleek branding
  • winter accessories

Materials

  • ripstop nylon
  • bonded jersey
  • coated cotton
  • reflective trim

Color Roles

  • Use the dark steel shades for hardware, copy, and high-contrast panels.
  • Use blue-grey mid tones for body fabrics and technical texture.
  • Use the pale ice shades for contrast, reflective details, and clean backgrounds.

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: #202732;
--palette-2: #3E4A59;
--palette-3: #657485;
--palette-4: #97A7B7;
--palette-5: #C8D3DC;
--palette-6: #EEF3F6;

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: #202732;
  --color-palette-2: #3E4A59;
  --color-palette-3: #657485;
  --color-palette-4: #97A7B7;
  --color-palette-5: #C8D3DC;
  --color-palette-6: #EEF3F6;
}