Blue & Lilac +1

About this combination

Combination 143 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Blue, Lilac, Warm Gray, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 143 of Wada's 348 anchors Blue, Lilac and Warm Gray in the blue 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 — Blue on Warm Gray — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.10:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.