Wada Sanzo Color Palettes
Japanese Colour Dictionary
₺49,99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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.
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Information
- Provider
- Kurt Higa
- Size
- 1.9 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kurt Higa
