About this combination
Seiji is the blue-green glaze of Longquan and Arita celadons — a color prized across East Asia for a thousand years. Kinari is the natural color of undyed hemp and silk. Together they compose the simplest, quietest tea-ceremony still life.
Where it works
- Ceramics and craft e-commerce
- Spa and wellness branding
- Quiet editorial layouts
Historical context
This editorial combination anchors Seiji, Kinari and Matsuba in the green family — a 3-colour grouping with a serene, earthy, refined character. It is an original composition by the editors of colorcombinations.org, built with Wada's method from traditional Japanese shikisai colour names associated with the Muromachi era; it is not one of the 348 plates in Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations. Its strongest pairing — Kinari on Matsuba — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.76:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.
Studio
Taking Celadon & Unbleached off the screen
A hex code is an instruction to a screen, not a colour. Where this palette is going decides what it needs next.
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...onto paper
Start here if the palette gets printed. Screen colour and ink colour are not the same colour, and this is the deck that translates between them.
Pantone
Color Bridge Guide — coated
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...onto a screen you can trust
Start here if it stays digital. An uncalibrated monitor is the single most common reason a palette that looked right on your desk looks wrong everywhere else.
Calibrite
Display Plus HL colorimeter kit
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...by hand
Start here if you are mixing it. Wada's plates were flat printed colour; gansai pans are the closest everyday medium to them.
Pentel
Fude Touch brush sign pen
Listed on Amazon as Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen, Black, Felt Pen Like Brush Stroke (SES15C-A) 3 Pieces
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