Refers to the tactile or visual impression of a material's surface quality, such as roughness, smoothness, or softness. Used in contexts like design, art, fashion, and product reviews.
This sofa has a really nice leather texture.
It's hard to convey the texture in a photo.
This cream helps bring out the texture of the skin.
These two fabrics look similar in color, but their texture is different.
This figure is known for its realistic-looking skin texture.
We reproduced the texture of wood in the 3D model.
感触 is a broader word for any physical sensation (including temperature, pressure, or emotional impression), whereas 質感 is narrower, focusing on a material's surface quality.
触感 refers strictly to the sensation of touch itself, while 質感 also includes the visual sense of a material's texture, not just how it feels to the fingers.
テクスチャー is a loanword used mainly in design, art, and 3D/CG contexts for surface texture, while 質感 is the everyday Japanese term used across fashion, product reviews, and design alike.
質感 is a more formal, descriptive term for the perceived texture of a material, while きめ focuses on the fineness or coarseness of the surface itself.
Compound of 質 (しつ, 'quality, substance') and 感 (かん, 'feeling, sensation'). The word is a relatively modern coinage for describing material texture.