Colours MayVary

Andy Gray and Becky Palfery opened Colours May Vary in 2012 because buying a decent design book in Leeds meant a train to London or Manchester, and they objected; the shop moved in 2021 onto the balcony of the Corn Exchange, the great oval Victorian trading hall that is itself the city's best argument for looking up. The stock runs design, illustration, photography and counterculture — books, independent magazines, prints and the objects that orbit them — curated with the specificity that makes specialists worth the name. Leeds' creative economy buys its references here, seven days a week.