Wada Sanzo Color Palettes

Sanzo Wada’s A Dictionary of Color Combinations, made for working designers. Every palette from both volumes — 582 combinations of 330 named colours — with the book’s printed CMYK and every value you need, one tap from your clipboard. A tool, not a feed: no ads, no subscriptions, no account. One purchase, both volumes, and it works offline. Palettes from both books • All 348 combinations from Volume I and 234 from Volume II, one palette per row • Volume II organised as in the book: the twelve months, and design categories from kimono and clothing to tapestry, earthenware and book design • Filter by collection, number of colours or hue — or open a random palette when you need a spark • Turn the page with ‹ › under any palette, or the arrow keys on iPad Exact values • CMYK exactly as printed in the books, checked against the pages • HEX, RGB, HSB and LAB for every colour — tap any value to copy it • Copy HEX codes the way your tools want them: uppercase or lowercase, with or without # Every colour at a glance • All 330 colours, each row filled with its colour • Drag the strip along the right edge to preview and jump to any colour • Japanese names and readings for Volume II colours • See every palette a colour appears in, the same colour in the other volume, and its closest neighbors Tools for real work • Match any hex code to the closest Wada colours, ranked by ΔE 2000 • Check contrast: every pairing in a palette, graded for text against WCAG AA and AAA • Export Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) files in RGB or the book’s CMYK for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Affinity • Export Procreate swatches, or copy HEX codes and CSS variables • Share story cards, transparent swatches, detail sheets, or a 2048 × 2048 image of any colour for your moodboards Yours, on every device • Favourite palettes and colours; they sync between your iPhone and iPad with iCloud • Designed for iPhone and iPad, in light and dark mode • No data collected About the colours The CMYK values are the books’ printed values. On-screen colours are converted from them with Japan Colour 2001 Coated, the standard profile for Japanese offset printing — as close to the page as a screen allows. Terms of Use: https://kurthiga.com/wada-colour-palettes/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://kurthiga.com/wada-colour-palettes/privacy-policy