Showa era · refined · warm · austere

Ivory Buff & Orange Rufous

Plate 102 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Ivory Buff, Orange Rufous.

Ivory Buff

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Orange Rufous

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About this combination

Combination 102 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Ivory Buff, Orange Rufous, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 102 of Wada's 348 anchors Ivory Buff and Orange Rufous in the yellow 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 — Ivory Buff on Orange Rufous — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.66:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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