Showa era · refined · cool · austere

Citrine & Light Glaucous Blue

Plate 93 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Citrine, Light Glaucous Blue.

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About this combination

Combination 93 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Citrine, Light Glaucous Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 93 of Wada's 348 anchors Citrine and Light Glaucous Blue 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 — Citrine on Light Glaucous Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.50:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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