About this combination
Combination 75 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Pale King's Blue, Violet Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 75 of Wada's 348 anchors Pale King's Blue and Violet 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 Violet Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.79:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.