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Wada Colors is a pocket reference inspired by A Dictionary of Color Combinations. Compiled by Sanzo Wada — Japanese painter, costume designer, and educator — the original archive paired 582 color combinations from 330 named historical pigments. This app brings Wada's color sensibility to your phone. A DAILY SHOWCASE Each day, discover a new combination from the archive. THE FULL ARCHIVE All 582 historical combinations and 330 named pigments — Hermosa Pink, Burnt Sienna, Dull Blue Violet, Cobalt Green — searchable and filterable by combination size, volume, collection (12 month, design) FIND COLORS FROM PHOTOS Point your camera at a wall, fabric, leaf, or pull from your photo library — Wada Colors finds the closest pigment from the archive. SAVE AND ORGANIZE Tap the heart to save any combination or color. Build collections — "Living room repaint," "Spring wardrobe," "Fall mood b…
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What you can learn from Wada Dictionary of Colors
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 6 screenshots above are Wada Dictionary of Colors's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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