Seasonal Color Palettes
Two seasonal color stories for trail footwear, each built from a mood collage, eight Pantone TCX accents and a three-color core: Jungle Gym and Arizona Desert.
- Category
- Color, Material, and Finish
- Year
- 2026
- Duration
- Summer 2026
- Role
- Color, material, and finish design intern
- For
- NOBULL, Boston
- Tools
- Photoshop, Pantone TCX
- Materials
- Pantone Textile Cotton (TCX) references
How the boards work
Each palette starts with a place and an activity, collected as a mood collage. From that I pull eight accent colors and a core of three neutrals that the accents sit on. Everything is referenced to Pantone TCX so a color can travel from the board to a supplier lab dip without translation.
The core does the work across a whole season; the accents change the story from one shoe to the next.
Arizona Desert
Accents: Vibrant Orange 16-1364, Poppy Red 17-1664, Pink Yarrow 17-2034, Spectra Yellow 14-0957, Lime Punch 13-0550, Summer Green 14-6156, Holly Green 16-5932, Pink Cosmos. Core:
- Navy Blazer 19-3923 TCX
- Moonbeam 13-0000 TCX
- Bright White 11-0601 TCX
Jungle Gym
Jungle Gym palette
- Blarney
- Shady Glade
- Blackberry Wine
- Blue Turquoise
- Bright Chartreuse
- Orange Peel
- Citrus
- Pale Banana
- Core: Forest Night, Pure Cashmere, Jet Black
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