Showa era · refined · cool · austere

Ivory Buff & Dusky Green

Plate 94 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Ivory Buff, Dusky Green.

Ivory Buff

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Dusky Green

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About this combination

Combination 94 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Ivory Buff, Dusky Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 94 of Wada's 348 anchors Ivory Buff and Dusky 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 — Ivory Buff on Dusky Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 6.51:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.

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