The white sari of the Hindu widow is not white at all. Woven from undyed handspun cotton — khadi, the cheapest cloth — it holds an ash-toned grey cast, raw and desaturated, worn unadorned to carry mourning and renunciation.
Seen in muted ashram light, the drape reads as quiet grey folds rather than bright cloth. This system translates that restraint into an interface: muted off-white grounds, no ornament, wide plain borders, and a gravity that never reaches for glamour.