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348 curated palettes from Sanzo Wada's 1930s masterwork — explore, save, and copy hex codes for your next project.
Sanzo Wada was a Japanese artist, designer, and colour theorist who lived from 1883 to 1967. In the 1930s he created A Dictionary of Color Combinations — a hand-painted collection of 348 curated colour pairings, trios, and quads. Each combination was deliberately chosen, not generated. That distinction matters.
Long before Pantone, before colour psychology became a marketing buzzword, Wada was mapping the emotional and aesthetic relationships between colours by hand. His work is still referenced by designers, artists, and architects almost a century later — because great colour decisions haven't changed.
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Search by colour name, filter by palette size, and copy hex codes straight into your design tool. Screenshot what catches your eye, drop it into a mood board, or bring a shortlist to your designer. Notice what you keep coming back to — that's usually the right answer.
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Colour data sourced from Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations (1930s). Original interactive tool by Ben Elwyn, built upon colour data by Matt DesLauriers. Adapted for AH Studio.