Colorway Board
A colorway board is a visual layout of a style’s color options across the season or a delivery — used to balance the color story, avoid over- or under-coloring a body, and plan color depth before it flows into the buy and size curve.
Color shapes apparel demand and markdown risk, and it is hard to judge in a spreadsheet. A colorway board shows the palette in proportion, so the team can see whether a body is carrying too many niche colors or too few core ones.
Color decisions do not end at the board — they feed buy depth by color and, ultimately, the size curve for each colorway. Keeping the colorway board connected to those downstream numbers is what stops a good-looking palette from becoming a markdown problem.
Canvas — the visual line board inside RetailNorthstar — puts these on one connected board, live against the plan from board to buy.