PANTONE® COTTON SWATCH CARD 18-0516 TCX Smokey Olive

PANTONE® 18-0516 TCX Smokey Olive

PANTONE® 18-0516 TCX Smokey Olive is a distinctive shade from the PANTONE® Fashion, Home + Interiors (FHI) color system. It belongs to the Cotton TCX library and serves as a premium cotton color standard for designers, product developers, manufacturers and retailers throughout the international textile and lifestyle industry.

With its medium, soft appearance, Smokey Olive is a relevant shade for contemporary fashion, home-textile and interior collections. The color reads as bright, friendly, optimistic and eye-catching. Its balanced combination of color effect, material reference and clear TCX system logic makes it particularly suitable for high-quality textile applications.

• Color Family: Yellow
• Color System: PANTONE® Fashion, Home + Interiors
• Material Standard: Cotton TCX
• Color Effect: bright, friendly, optimistic, eye-catching

The color number 18-0516 TCX uniquely identifies the shade within the PANTONE® Fashion, Home + Interiors system. Its individual components also describe the position of the color within the PANTONE® color space:

• 18 – Lightness: a medium to dark color value
• 05 – Hue: a neutral to reddish hue area
• 16 – Chroma: a soft to medium saturation

Color family

Within the PANTONE® system, Smokey Olive is classified as part of the Yellow color family. Yellow shades appear bright, eye-catching and optimistic. They bring lightness to collections and can appear fresh, sunny, soft or fashionably pointed depending on the nuance.

In combination with

the following shades let Smokey Olive produce a friendly, bright and modern color palette:

• white
• natural tones
• light grey
• navy
• khaki
• denim
• warm beige and brown tones