About this combination
Combination 16 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Vandyke Red, Pale King's Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 16 of Wada's 348 anchors Vandyke Red and Pale King's Blue in the red family — a 2-colour grouping with a refined, warm, austere character, recorded in the Showa-era volumes of Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, where these shikisai names have sat in the public domain for generations. Its strongest pairing — Vandyke Red on Pale King's Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.93:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.