About Traditional color palettes
Season, element and harmony rules across Asian color traditions
How to use
Match a value to the traditional Japanese Wairo palette and explore its seasonal color names.
Traditional color palettes
Rules from Asian color traditions
Japanese palettes follow the four seasons, Chinese palettes follow the five elements, Korean palettes separate jeongsaek and jiansaek, and Vietnamese palettes use the five traditional hues. Thai, Tibetan, Indian, Mongolian and Indonesian collections add weekday, five-element, festival and craft groups.
The rule filters the collection to colors that belong together, then the generator balances the set so it works as a palette rather than five variations of one tone.
How the palette is chosen
The tool starts from a filtered candidate list and adds colors with the largest perceptual distance, measured in OKLCH. That keeps the result usable for backgrounds, accents and text.