Color

Palette

Six colors from a day on the trail. Ember leads: it is the jacket you can see across a valley and the one color that says Rove. Char is our ink, Bone is our paper, and Moss, Stone and Clay are the ground, the rock and the mud. Take values from the tiles, not from a photograph.

Proportion

Bone and Char carry almost everything. Ember appears in one place per piece, where it has to be seen. Moss, Stone and Clay fill backgrounds, tags and the quiet parts of a layout, the way they fill the frame of our photographs.

Ember
49%
Slate
26%
Bone
13%
 
 
 
 
 
 
Contrast

Pairings that stay readable at a glance, which on a trail is the only glance you get. Char on Bone and Bone on Char carry all text. Bone on Ember and Bone on Moss work for headlines and labels. Ember on Bone is for large type only, never for body copy.

Aa
Bone on Slate
AAA · 12.5:1
Aa
Slate on Bone
AAA · 12.5:1
Aa
Moss on Bone
AA · 6.4:1
Aa
Bone on Moss
AA · 6.4:1
Aa
Clay on Slate
AA Large · 4.5:1
Aa
Slate on Clay
AA Large · 4.5:1
Aa
Slate on Stone
AA Large · 4.2:1
Aa
Slate on Ember
AA Large · 3.9:1
Color modes

Screens show the palette at its brightest. Ember loses some fire in CMYK, so on hang tags and packaging match the Pantone and let the Bone paper do the rest. On fabric, send the lab the Pantone and a swatch, never a screen value.

Color mode
Application
Notes
RGB / Hex
Screens
Source of truth
CMYK
Tags, packaging, posters
Proof Ember; it prints duller
Pantone
Labels, signage, suppliers
Ember 1655 C · Slate 7546 C · Bone 7527 C
Fabric
Garments, embroidery
Pantone plus a swatch, never a screen
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