A material study / 055
Merelani Tanzanite
Violet-blue, red earth & sisal, below Kilimanjaro.
December’s violet-blue birthstone, sampled from the Merelani Hills in northern Tanzania, the only commercial source of tanzanite: deep violet stone, red earth, grey graphite rock and pale sisal.
01 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
02 / Play with the composition
Violet-blue that changes as you turn it.
Keep the large surfaces warm and pale, sisal and limewash, so the violet-blue can be deep without the room turning cold. Use tanzanite violet on a bed, a sofa or one velvet wall, the lighter blue-violet on linen, and red earth on a single plaster wall. Graphite and ebony are for stone and wood.
Palette proportions / Total 100%
Starting points
The finish, shadow depth and palette proportions respond to your settings. The room image is a fixed interpretation.
Surface finish: Luminous · Shadow depth: 35% · Sisal: 35%; Blue-Violet Linen: 15%; Graphite Schist: 10%; Merelani Earth: 12%; Tanzanite Violet: 18%; Ebony: 10%
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
Three colours in one stone.
Notes on tanzanite from the hills below Kilimanjaro: a violet-blue stone, red earth and the grey rock it grows in.
The same palette. Different roles.
Use this palette.
A suggested interface use of the study’s paper and accent. Supporting ink is added for legibility; original palette values stay intact.
#C6B199Supporting ink #171615Accent #28225BInspect application CSS
/* Sourced from Chromologium (https://chromologium.com/studies/merelani-tanzanite) */
/* Suggested application roles; original palette preserved separately. */
:root {
--study-surface: #C6B199;
--study-ink: #171615;
--study-accent: #28225B;
--study-accent-ink: #ffffff;
--study-original-1: #C6B199; /* Sisal */
--study-original-2: #626492; /* Blue-Violet Linen */
--study-original-3: #7B7C7D; /* Graphite Schist */
--study-original-4: #814C36; /* Merelani Earth */
--study-original-5: #28225B; /* Tanzanite Violet */
--study-original-6: #292322; /* Ebony */
}
Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
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Sources & interpretation
An imagined lodge bedroom and specimen tray inspired by the Merelani Hills. The stone facts are from GIA; the room is not a record of a real place, and the colours were sampled from the generated images. This study makes no claims about healing or other properties of the stone.
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions