Cambridge blue (#A3C1AD) is a mid-tone cool green shade that appears across 9 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Henry van de Velde, Fyodor Vasilyev, and Rudolf Bauer and the Realism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Lion (#DECC9C), Metallic Sunburst (#9C7C38), and Smoky black (#100C08). The combination forms a balanced chord, built on a split-complementary spread, spans a mixed temperature range, with a moderate step down in value that keeps the source forward.
