Almond (#EED9C4) is a very pale warm shade that appears across 18 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Sanyu, and Rosario Weiss Zorrilla and the Edo period (1603–1867) tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Raisin black (#242124), Chestnut (#954535), and Rich black (#010203). The combination forms an almost-white, sunlit chord, built on a split-complementary spread, spans a mixed temperature range, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the darker companions read as depth.
