About this combination
Combination 67 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Olympic Blue, Dark Tyrian Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 67 of Wada's 348 anchors Olympic Blue and Dark Tyrian 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 — Olympic Blue on Dark Tyrian Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.21:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.