About this combination
Combination 68 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Light Brown Drab, Yellow, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 68 of Wada's 348 anchors Light Brown Drab and Yellow 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 — Light Brown Drab on Yellow — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.38:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.