A hot pink nail salon. A yellow taqueria. A periwinkle Edwardian with red trim.

Block after block along San Francisco ’s bustling 24th Street, architectural gems mimic the vibrant papel picado strung up in windowfronts across the historic Mission District corridor.

Less eye-catching, however, are the small signs affixed to the sides of these buildings, an understated acknowledgment of the man who painted thousands of technicolor buildings and helped shape the city’s iconic skyline in the process: Bob Buckter, better known as Dr. Color.

San Francisco is widely known for its colorful architectural landscape, particularly the rainbow of Victorians dotting its hillsides. Much of it can be attributed to Buckter, who has painted and consulted on color design for tens of thousands of Victo

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