Soft navy, season by season.

Soft navy is navy with gray worked into it, the color of a navy sweater after many washes.

On the depth scale, which runs from light to dark, it sits in the middle, a few steps lighter than classic navy. Its undertone, the warm or cool cast under a color, is neutral, balanced between golden and icy blue. Its clarity, how clear or muted a color looks, is low, so on wool or cotton it reads calm and slightly dusty, with soft edges.

Soft navy is a dark without a hard edge. Its medium depth sits close to the depth of the Summers and the light Springs, so the face stays in front of the garment. Its neutral undertone lets warm and cool skin both sit beside it at ease. Clarity decides the rest. The muted Summers match its gray directly. Light Spring and Bright Spring, light and warm, use it as the calm dark next to light skin, where black would be too heavy. The Winters and True Spring need saturation at the face, and on them the gray in soft navy reads as dust. For the Autumns, the blue base sits apart from warm skin, so it works as a scarf, a strap or a shoe.