— March 20, 2026
Exploring Mineral Tonality

The same mineral surface looks warmer at dusk than at noon. Here's why.
The color of a mineral surface never sits still. We use raw earthen pigments, so the tone shifts as the light in the room changes through the day.
Take our Bone white: warm at sunset, almost cool and architectural under midday light. That shift isn't an accident, it's part of how we choose pigments in the first place.
When we work with architects, we talk about the surface as something that responds to its setting rather than sitting flat against it. Picking the right pigment base means thinking about which way a room faces and what the light does there over the course of a day.
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