The colors were deep and beautiful, the fabric is great. What I didn't like was that not all the 5" squares were 5". Some were smaller by 1/8" or a little more! Luckily I was purchasing it for a table top runner that I'm going to keep for myself so I knew if I couldn't get exactly 2.5" squares out of the fabric, I would be forgiving. But if I was purchasing it for a quilt or something I was going to give away, I would have been irritated.