Textile Color Swatch

Asian textile direction

Lacquer and Tea textile color palette

Lacquer and Tea combines black lacquer, urushi red, matcha, bamboo, tea brown, and warm ivory. It gives designers a refined accent palette for trims, silk accessories, packaging, and small capsule stories where dark polish and natural green need to sit together.

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Textile Direction

How to use Lacquer and Tea

Best For

  • silk accessories
  • premium trims
  • tea packaging
  • accent capsules

Materials

  • silk satin
  • cotton sateen
  • lacquered hardware
  • woven ribbon

Color Roles

  • Use black lacquer as the anchor for packaging, hardware, and dark grounds.
  • Use urushi red as a measured accent rather than the full surface.
  • Use matcha, bamboo, and warm ivory to soften the palette and keep it textile-friendly.

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: #15120F;
--palette-2: #5A1714;
--palette-3: #9B2F24;
--palette-4: #63724A;
--palette-5: #B6A15F;
--palette-6: #F2E6C9;

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: #15120F;
  --color-palette-2: #5A1714;
  --color-palette-3: #9B2F24;
  --color-palette-4: #63724A;
  --color-palette-5: #B6A15F;
  --color-palette-6: #F2E6C9;
}