A First Look at Tonalità Viva: Milan’s Color Mood, Captured
Every season, color says more than we give it credit for—and this year in Milan, it spoke with clarity and confidence.
We’re excited to release Tonalità Viva, a stand-alone color guide excerpted from The Textile Eye – Report 25: Milan in Focus. The guide explores the industy’s current color sensibility through immersive palettes, directional tones, and applications in textile, furniture, and surface design.
Droulers
Subscribers can access the full color section, including 19 palettes, shades, and treatments, as part of Report 25. For everyone else, Tonalità Viva is available as a standalone purchase—now on the site.
The cover palette—Spettro Indisciplinato…
(Unruly Spectrum)—sets the tone. It is a spectrum, but it skips red entirely and instead moves through yellow, green, turquoise, purple, and magenta-toned pink. Irregular but intentional, it reflects the playful tension we saw across Milan Design Week 2025: precision and whimsy working side by side.
Hana Hillerová at Rossana Orlandi
Loloey
Paola Lenti
Why You’ll Love Spettro Indisciplinato
This palette embraces color as a dynamic force—unpredictable, expressive, and full of movement. Without a traditional anchor like red, it opens up a fresh spectrum that feels both playful and refined. Whether used to energize upholstery or bring tonal complexity to prints and accessories, Spettro Indisciplinato invites designers to explore unexpected combinations with confidence. It’s a palette that resists symmetry, favoring rhythm over balance.
Taroni
Marrimor
Access the Full Color Guide
This guide includes nineteen shades and palettes like this one, plus 5 material and surface treatments. With over 50 pages of color inspiration, hex codes, and material context, subscribers have access to plenty of inspiration for your next collection or mood board. Not a subscriber? You can still purchase the color guide as a stand-alone tool and gain access to all palettes—including the included .ASE files for seamless integration into your design projects. See how thoughtful, bold color can elevate your work to new heights!
A New Approach to Color Tools
We understand that inspiration is only the beginning of the design process. That’s why we’re glad to include Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) files with the Tonalita Viva: Milan’s World of Color guide. These files allow you to seamlessly integrate the palettes into your Adobe Creative Suite workflow—whether you’re working in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign. With these tools, you can explore Spettro Indisciplinato and our other curated palettes with ease, bringing your vision to life.
