A seasonal edition · twelve studies

Winter color palettes

Twelve palettes for the winter months, from the solstice to the end of February: the moons, the winter birthstones and rooms made for long nights. Every study gives six named colors with hex codes and a palette you can copy or keep. The rooms are imagined interiors made for each study. For trees, tables and mantels, see the Christmas color palettes.

December

The solstice, the Cold Moon, Hanukkah and December’s blue birthstones.

January

The Wolf Moon, January’s garnet and rooms for the darkest weeks.

February

February’s amethyst and amber’s warm light as winter ends.

All twelve

The winter studies.

Quartz, a contemporary spiral-carved stone, frosted slate, indigo wool and beeswax form a winter material study.

032 / Material & color

Newgrange Solstice

Quartz, indigo & the first light.

Ireland · 6 colors

A pale oak specimen tray seen from above, holding a frosted pine cone, a balsam fir sprig, bundled birch twigs, a hammered pewter bowl, white pillar candles, red winterberries, a shard of clear ice, folded homespun linen and a sprig of white snowberries.

052 / Material & color

Cold Moon

Snowberry, balsam fir & winterberry.

United States · 6 colors

Olive wood, golden olive oil, blue wool, hammered silver, a pomegranate and olive leaves rest on warm limestone.

033 / Material & color

Jerusalem Stone & Blue

Warm stone, blue wool & candlelight.

Jerusalem · 6 colors

Raw and polished turquoise, chrysocolla, native copper, red sandstone, a saguaro rib and a silver ingot on pale plaster.

045 / Material & color

Turquoise

Sky blue, native copper & the December birthstone.

United States · 6 colors

A pale oak specimen tray with ten compartments holding a rough blue-violet tanzanite crystal, a faceted violet tanzanite, tanzanite in grey rock, red-brown earth, graphite schist, a curl of acacia bark, twisted sisal, a dried acacia pod, a brass loupe and an ebony offcut.

055 / Material & color

Merelani Tanzanite

Violet-blue, red earth & sisal, below Kilimanjaro.

Tanzania · 6 colors

Antique silver and smoky black glass ornaments rest among burgundy velvet ribbon, dried roses, fir and slate.

026 / Material & color

Edinburgh After Dark

Black glass, velvet & firelight.

Scotland · 6 colors · 2 palettes

A pale oak specimen tray seen from above, holding grey wool fleece, black lava rock, a juniper sprig with frosted blue berries, a shard of clear ice, a curl of birch bark, a candle in a black iron holder, folded indigo wool, dried rosehips, a speckled granite pebble and a grey feather.

053 / Material & color

Wolf Moon

Juniper frost, wolf-grey fleece & lava stone.

United States · 6 colors

Dark red garnets in volcanic gravel, a garnet brooch, ruby glass, hop cones and red velvet ribbon on grey stone.

047 / Material & color

Bohemian Garnet

Pyrope red, ruby glass & the January birthstone.

Czech Republic · 6 colors

Fibrous washi, hinoki wood, a turned bowl, linen and bark arranged together.

011 / Material & color

Hinoki & Washi

Warmth, without adding more.

Japan · 6 colors

A banded malachite slab, rough malachite, a gilt bronze leaf, white marble, crimson damask and azurite on oak parquet.

049 / Material & color

Malachite

Banded green, gilt & crimson silk.

Russia · 6 colors · 2 palettes

An open amethyst geode, amethyst points, a lilac plaster square, lavender linen and aubergine velvet on dark basalt.

044 / Material & color

Amethyst

Geode violet, grey agate & the February birthstone.

Uruguay · 6 colors · 4 palettes

Raw and polished amber, a carved gilded frame, beeswax candles, gold leaf, pale sand and cognac velvet on walnut.

050 / Material & color

Amber

Baltic amber, beeswax & gilt.

Russia · 6 colors · 2 palettes