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Showa era · refined · warm

Golden Yellow & Antwarp Blue +1

Plate 140 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Golden Yellow, Antwarp Blue, Slate Color.

Golden Yellow

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Antwarp Blue

#007190

Slate Color

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About this combination

Combination 140 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Golden Yellow, Antwarp Blue, Slate Color, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 140 of Wada's 348 anchors Golden Yellow, Antwarp Blue and Slate Color in the orange family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, warm 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 — Golden Yellow on Slate Color — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.81:1, 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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