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Showa era · refined · cool

Olive Ocher & Cobalt Green +1

Plate 156 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Olive Ocher, Cobalt Green, Violet.

Olive Ocher

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Cobalt Green

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Violet

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About this combination

Combination 156 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Olive Ocher, Cobalt Green, Violet, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 156 of Wada's 348 anchors Olive Ocher, Cobalt Green and Violet 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 — Cobalt Green on Violet — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.98:1, 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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