Canvas Color in Clothing

The canvas color is always the most prevalent color of an outfit. It is sometimes also referred to as “base color”, but we prefer the term “canvas” since it paints a better mental picture.

The canvas color is usually not very saturated. More often than not, it’s a neutral color such as dark brown or dark blue.

Most of the time you’ll find the canvas of an outfit to not even be of any color. In such a case, it would be black, white or any gray value in between.

As always, here’s an example:

Socks: Color Crates

In the example image, the canvas “color” is very obviously middle gray. Both the trousers and the denim shirt are gray and, as such, part of the canvas.

“On top” of the canvas, you have the accent colors. In our example, these would be bright blue-green and orange. The sub-accents are dark gray and black.

Note: Every outfit has a canvas and every piece of clothing has a canvas (base) within it’s own color scheme. This is why all of our products (by themselves) are labeled with base, accent and sub(-accent).