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Showa era · refined · cool

Sulpher Yellow & Cossack Green +1

Plate 135 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Sulpher Yellow, Cossack Green, Salvia Blue.

Sulpher Yellow

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Cossack Green

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Salvia Blue

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About this combination

Combination 135 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Sulpher Yellow, Cossack Green, Salvia Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 135 of Wada's 348 anchors Sulpher Yellow, Cossack Green and Salvia Blue in the yellow family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, cool 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 — Sulpher Yellow on Cossack Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.46:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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