Showa era
Grayish Lavender - B & Violet
Plate 56 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Grayish Lavender - B, Violet.
Hue family · 14 colors · 3 palettes
Neutral Color Combinations
Gofun, kinari, nezumi, sumi, gin — the chalk-to-ink spectrum of Japanese neutrals.
Japanese neutrals are mineralogically and behaviorally specific: gofun (oyster-shell white used as ground in nihonga painting), kinari (raw, unbleached silk), nezumi (rat-grey — itself subdivided into dozens of named shades), sumi (sumi-ink black), gin (silver). The 'grey' family alone contains more named shades than most full Western palettes.
Every neutral in the dictionary
Click any swatch to see the palette where it appears. Every color page lists hex, RGB, WCAG contrast, and cross-links to every Wada plate that uses it.
#111314 Black 23× · 18.6:1 on white
#F8F4E9 Kinari 生成 14× · 1.1:1 on white
#b6bfc1 Neutral Gray 12× · 1.9:1 on white
#2B2B2B Sumi 墨 10× · 14.2:1 on white
#a1a39a Warm Gray 8× · 2.6:1 on white
#70727c Deep Violet / Plumbeous 3× · 4.8:1 on white
#BCBCBE Gin 銀 3× · 1.9:1 on white
#6d7e77 Andover Green 2× · 4.3:1 on white
#a2b0ad Mineral Gray 2× · 2.2:1 on white
#141414 Kuro 黒 1× · 18.4:1 on white
#8A8A8A Nezumi 鼠 1× · 3.5:1 on white
#878A74 Rikyū-nezumi 利休鼠 1× · 3.5:1 on white
#FFFFFF Shiro 白 1× · 1.0:1 on white
#ffffff White 1× · 1.0:1 on white
Palettes dominant in neutral
3 historical combinations from the 1933 archive where neutral carries the strongest visual weight. Each palette page exports as JSON, Tailwind config, CSS variables, or a downloadable share-card image.