Selection Notes
How to choose this direction
- Use steel, teal, or utility grey as the structural base.
- Keep pale icy shades available for contrast and reflective details.
- Add high-energy color only as a trim, stitch, or graphic accent.
Performance Color
Technical Outerwear Color Palettes
Technical palettes need clarity. Even when the mood is subtle, performance fabrics benefit from cool anchors, readable value steps, and a precise accent strategy that works on hardware, trims, and digital product views.
Palette Hub
Cool greys, mineral blues, utility neutrals, and controlled brights for outerwear, active, and performance textiles.
Each palette includes textile use notes, material ideas, color role guidance, contrast notes, and copyable digital values.
Curated Palettes
5 palettes in this hub
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Performance Color
Frosted Steel
cool technical palette
Cold metallic greys with a pale ice note for technical fabrics, outerwear, and sleek branding.
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Resort Mineral
coastal blue textile palette
Sea-glass blues with airy stone notes suited to resort, active, and light home collections.
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Airy Freshness
fresh SS26 palette
Use it for spring layering, technical shirting, light interiors, and fabrics that need lift without looking sugary.
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Washed Utility
utility neutral SS26 palette
Good for tailoring, uniforms, contemporary basics, and collections that need grounded versatility with polish.
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Electric Petal
vivid floral palette
Sharp floral energy for youth capsules, graphics, and trend-driven color stories.
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