This isn’t an exhaustive listing of our color palette. Our color selection isn’t static: we periodically modify old colors, drop colors, and add new colors. We can modify most hues, and most colors can be made more or less saturated, warmer or cooler, or lighter or darker (value), according to your needs. Custom colors are available, as well, based on your supplied paint chip, fabric swatch, Pantone number (uncoated), or emailed photo.
Some color considerations:
Remember that a back-lit shade looks different from an unlit shade. An back-lit shade takes on some of the color of the bulb. The more neutral the shade color, the stronger the influence of the bulb color on the shade will be.
When unlit, shade color is influenced by ambient light. Some of this ambient light will play as reflected light off of the surface of the shade, and some of the ambient light will act as a subtle backlight, as well.
The swatches on this page are scanned images. This is how the colors look when scanned in. Scanned images are front-lit and opaque; they are scanned against a flat surface in the scanner, so there is no ambient light or back-lighting at work.
Demonstrating colors on the web is problematic. On top of the issue of different color representation (back-lit, ambient, scanned), monitors don’t represent colors uniformly. Further, you are looking at the screen in a room with different ambient and practical lighting sources, so colors can look different on your monitor, depending on your lighting set-up. Send us an email with your name, address, and the colors you’re interested in, and we’re happy to send you some swatches.