Lavender Field began as a slightly overexposed phone photo taken from a rental car window. Here's how a snapshot becomes a shippable palette.
Sample wide, pick narrow
We pull 40–60 candidate colors from a source photo, then cut ruthlessly: every survivor has to earn a job — one dark anchor, one saturated hero, two mid support tones, one near-white.
Then betray the photo
The camera's lavender was too grey to print. The shipped hero hex is a full step more saturated than reality — palettes are about the memory of a place, not the pixels.