Fashion editorial direction

Tobacco Lilac Editorial textile color palette

Tobacco Lilac Editorial takes familiar brown and camel into a stranger place by adding dry lilac. The result feels wearable but editorial, especially for outerwear, leather goods, knitwear, and store storytelling.

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Textile Direction

How to use Tobacco Lilac Editorial

Best For

  • outerwear
  • leather accessories
  • knitwear
  • editorial merchandising

Materials

  • suede
  • wool coating
  • cashmere knit
  • cotton gabardine

Color Roles

  • Use tobacco and dark brown for structure, leather, footwear, and grounding trims.
  • Use camel as the commercial mid tone for larger product surfaces.
  • Use lilac and pale violet as the unexpected softness in knitwear, lining, or visual merchandising.

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: #2F261F;
--palette-2: #6E4E34;
--palette-3: #B18452;
--palette-4: #8C78A8;
--palette-5: #CEC2DD;
--palette-6: #F5EFE6;

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: #2F261F;
  --color-palette-2: #6E4E34;
  --color-palette-3: #B18452;
  --color-palette-4: #8C78A8;
  --color-palette-5: #CEC2DD;
  --color-palette-6: #F5EFE6;
}

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