Showa era · refined · cool · austere

Olive Ocher & Olive Green

Plate 66 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Olive Ocher, Olive Green.

Olive Ocher

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Olive Green

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About this combination

Combination 66 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Olive Ocher, Olive Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 66 of Wada's 348 anchors Olive Ocher and Olive Green in the yellow 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 — Olive Ocher on Olive Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.57:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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