About this combination
Combination 74 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Turquoise Green, Green Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 74 of Wada's 348 anchors Turquoise Green and Green Blue in the green family — a 2-colour grouping with a refined, cool, austere character, recorded in Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations (six volumes; Seigensha Art Publishing 2010 reprint), and in the public domain by age. Its strongest pairing — Turquoise Green on Green Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.59:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.
Studio
Taking Turquoise Green & Green Blue 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.
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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
ColorChecker Studio spectrophotometer
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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.
Kuretake
Gansai Tambi 36
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