Muromachi era
Scorched Brown & Unbleached— 焦茶と生成
The dark brown of scorched wood against unbleached hemp — quiet materials.
Collection · 24 palettes
Vintage Color Palettes
The muted beauty of aged lacquer, worn cloth, and faded woodblock prints.
Vintage in the Japanese color tradition is what time does to pigment: the persimmon-orange of aged kaki lacquerware, the warm brown of kogecha tea cloth washed a hundred times, the ochre of old paper yellowed at the edges. These are not colors that looked old when they were made — they earned their patina. Wada documented them at the moment of their tradition: just before synthetic dyes made the natural ones obsolete. Use them for heritage brands, print-inspired editorial layouts, food and beverage with provenance, and anything that benefits from the credibility that only time can give.
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- All 378 palettes (348 Wada + 30 editorial) in five formats
- Figma design tokens (W3C-spec JSON, drag into any file)
- Tailwind v4 + v3 configs — drop into any project
- CSS custom properties — every plate, one stylesheet
- 378 museum SVG plates — print-ready at any size
- Full JSON — colors, names, eras, moods, dominant hues
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