adidas NMD_R1 'Legend Ink Bright Royal'
Colorway: Legend Ink/Bright Royal/Better Scarlet · Style code: GW4657 · Release date: September 14, 2023 · Price: $104 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: adidas NMD_R1 'Legend Ink' (GY6057) · adidas NMD_R1 'Grey Legend Ink' (GW4658) · Adidas NMD_R1 'Legend Ink Hi-Res Yellow' (EE5108) · Adidas NMD R1 Spectoo Sneakers (GZ9262) · Adidas NMD R1 (Women's) Sneakers (S75232)
Legend Ink is the darkest blue adidas keeps in regular rotation, close enough to navy that it passes for black in poor light, and it fills the knit upper here. Bright Royal is its opposite, a saturated primary, and using the two together gives the shoe a blue-on-blue structure where the lighter shade defines edges the darker one would otherwise swallow.
Better Scarlet is the third colour and the only warm one, kept to a small share of the surface so it works as a signal rather than as a panel. Red against blue is a high-contrast pairing, which is why so little of it is needed. The rest is standard: a single-piece knit upper with welded Three Stripes, a sock-like collar, a full-length Boost midsole carrying inserts moulded into its sidewall, and the segmented rubber outsole. It released September 14, 2023 at $160, which is where the knit build had settled by the model's later years.