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Cossack Green & Vandar Poel's Blue
Plate 5 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Cossack Green, Vandar Poel's Blue.
blue · 7 palettes
Vandar Poel's Blue is a deep, vivid blue tone. Its hex value is #064f6e — that is
RGB 6, 79, 110, or HSL 198°, 90%, 23%.
It holds 8.9:1 contrast against white, so Vandar Poel's Blue works best for body text, headings, and UI labels. (On white it scores 8.9:1; on black 2.4:1.)
Across Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, Vandar Poel's Blue appears in 7 combinations — most often paired with Cossack Green, Eugenia Red | B and Sulpher Yellow.
Vandar Poel's Blue appears in 7 combinations from the archive. Each pairing reveals how the same color shifts character depending on its neighbours.
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