Olive Ocher & Orange Yellow +1

About this combination

Combination 148 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Olive Ocher, Orange Yellow, Cerulian Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 148 of Wada's 348 anchors Olive Ocher, Orange Yellow and Cerulian 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 — Orange Yellow on Cerulian Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.03:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.