I love the colors in this set! I looked numerous places for a duvet color with dark blue and turquoise. We just painted our guest bedroom a soft turquoise (seafoam) color and this set looks perfect. I feel that the picture accurately shows the colors- navy, robin's egg blue, light turquoise, dark turquoise and green apple on a white background. The reverse side is a more masculine looking pattern. It's a hard to see it in the picture: it's a royal blue (rather than navy) solid background with stripes made out of alternating white and green dots. The quality/softness of the cotton is better than I expected for the price. It does need to be ironed to look crisp.