About this combination
Combination 49 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Pale King's Blue, Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 49 of Wada's 348 anchors Pale King's Blue and Blue in the blue family — a 2-colour grouping with a refined, cool, 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 — Pale King's Blue on Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.36:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.