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Polished Pop Heritage Katagami

Cream album paper, inky indigo structure, disciplined poster accents, and fresh editorial market color.

warm with cool indigo structure, museum citrus against heritage indigo.

Mixed from 6 unpublished styles

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Colours

4 signature colours, 5 neutrals, 4 semantic.

Signature

Citrus poster ochre#B87912
Heritage indigo#243F73
Tomato album coral#C85743
Leaf market green#4F6F3A

Neutrals

bg#F3E8D3
surface#FFF8E8
text#17202A
muted#7C735F
border#D8C8A8

Semantic

success#4F6F3A
warning#B87912
error#C85743
info#2F6FBA

Ramps

accent
neutral

Using it

Do

  • Use album cream and warm ground as the visible majority; let ink and heritage indigo carry structure.
  • Reserve citrus accent for the primary poster note, active route, price burst, or editorial crop mark.
  • Use tomato/coral, leaf green, and sportswear blue as coded accents in small blocks with generous cream spacing.
  • Keep Katagami repeats tonal: indigo at 8-18 percent visual weight or stencil shadow as quiet texture.
  • Build book-cover and transit systems from flat bands, hard edges, and clear figure-ground contrast.

Avoid

  • Do not turn the palette into an oversaturated rainbow; never use all accents at equal weight.
  • Do not rely on beige-only nostalgia; always anchor with ink, indigo, or sportswear blue.
  • Avoid loud retro parody: no candy primaries, fake distress overload, or novelty fruit-sign clutter.
  • Avoid corporate blandness: do not reduce the system to generic navy, gray, and safe blue buttons.
  • Never put muted text on ground for body copy or citrus text on cream.

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