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Vision

Channel the vibrancy
of the universe.

An archive of color rooted in real places. We keep each color tied to its source so it can move forward without losing where it came from.

Our Purpose
Color is economy and meaning. About one percent of global GDP runs through color — pigments, inks, dyes, resins. But the numbers are only half of it. Color is how we remember places and people. Like smell, it's a shortcut back.
Every color we collect comes from somewhere real. We don't pull color out of photographs. We pull it out of the thing itself — a flower petal, a weathered board, the iron on a century bridge — through a proprietary process, and then we photograph the source so the color never forgets where it came from.
Make color keep its meaning across every medium. Screens, presses, papers, and hands all translate color differently. We build the tools and the framework so the color you saw is the color that arrives — whether that's on a print, a product, or the next person's screen.
The System

The archive is building a way for color to stay true to its source from object to print.

CHROMATICA
ISSUE 20SUMMER 2026

The archive is being built in public, one collection at a time. Its first field season follows a year-long route across Canada: Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic, with a stop in Austria for family roots. Each stop adds new evidence. The method has to hold across all of it.

Direction

A durable archive with a magazine front door.

Unichrome is not a palette generator with a story wrapped around it. It is becoming an archive of colors sampled from real places, published through dispatches that keep the road, the method, and the memory legible.

Archive

The color record comes first: place, source object, witness, method, and enough disclosure for the work to be judged.

Magazine

Dispatches are the front door. Essays carry readers into the archive, and tokens become evidence inside the story.

Terminus

This first volume is complete when the route has crossed Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Austria, and returned. After that, it is maintained, not grown.

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Your colors carry meaning.
Let's carry them further.

Follow the journey. Browse the collections. Or find a local partner shop and pick up a print from the place you’re standing.

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