Sapphire (#0F52BA) is a deep cool shade that appears across 5 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Alan Stephens Foster, Raoul Dufy, and Giacomo Balla and the Regionalism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with International orange (#BA160C), Khaki (#C3B091), and Coffee (#6F4E37). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
