LIVE FLAGSHIP
Chinese Color Atlas
567 traditional Chinese colors with heritage references, classical citations, design tokens, swatches, AI prompts, and export packs.
ViewChinese Color AtlasCHROMA CATHAY
VISUAL ATLAS STUDIO
A CHINESE COLOR ATLAS PUBLISHER
A CHINESE COLOR ATLAS PUBLISHER
Visual atlases and color tools for culturally grounded design.
Chroma Cathay turns cultural colors, photography, architecture, and visual heritage into practical palettes, datasets, and design workflows.
BRAND RELATIONSHIP
Chroma Cathay is the studio. Chinese Color Atlas is the first flagship product.
At this stage, the flagship product keeps the search-aligned Chinese Color Atlas name. Chroma Cathay becomes the brand hub for future photo, architecture, East Asian color, and licensing products.
WHAT WE BUILD
Not another color website: a visual culture tool system.
NEXT TOOL
Photo Palette Extractor
Upload a photo, extract its palette, and match the colors to cultural color atlases and production-ready exports.
View →LIVE SISTER ATLAS
Architecture Photography Color Atlas
A visual atlas of photogenic buildings, material colors, city light, shooting angles, and exportable architecture palettes.
View →COMING SOON
Japanese Color Atlas
A source-aware archive of traditional Japanese colors is in preparation, with vocabulary guides, kasane no irome, 72 microseasons, design-token exports, and a palette builder planned.
View →RESEARCH QUEUE
Korean Color Atlas
Obangsaek, Dancheong palette systems, and later textile-led East Asian material palettes — research stage.
View →BRAND PRINCIPLES
Every new direction needs provenance, context, and export value.
Source before style
Every serious atlas entry needs provenance, caveats, and a clear distinction between measured color, interpreted color, and design approximation.
Tools, not moodboards
A page should let users copy, export, compare, or reuse a palette in Figma, CSS, Tailwind, Procreate, AI prompts, or a design brief.
Concrete verticals
Chroma Cathay can speak about visual culture, but each shipped product should be concrete: photos, buildings, Japanese colors, Korean systems, textiles.
EXECUTION ORDER
Start with a lean brand hub, then ship repeatable tools and atlas products.
Brand hub
Make Chroma Cathay legible as the studio behind Chinese Color Atlas without splitting SEO authority.
Photo Palette Extractor
Upgrade image extraction into a repeatable tool: palette roles, atlas matches, export cards, and design-token output.
Architecture by color
Launch a curated MVP of photogenic buildings by material, light, palette, and shooting angle.
Japanese Color Atlas (coming soon)
The next atlas is being prepared as a source-aware archive of named traditional Japanese colors with vocabulary guides, sub-atlases (kasane, origins, chiyogami), and a 72-microseason koyomi.
Korean Color Atlas
Next in the research queue — Obangsaek and Dancheong with a stricter source policy from the start.
CURRENT ENTRY POINT
Start with Chinese Color Atlas.
Chroma Cathay expands from a credible, exportable, reusable atlas of traditional Chinese colors.