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Showa era · refined · warm

Pansy Purple & Olive Ocher +1

Plate 157 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Pansy Purple, Olive Ocher, Olympic Blue.

Pansy Purple

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Olive Ocher

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Olympic Blue

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Combination 157 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Pansy Purple, Olive Ocher, Olympic Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 157 of Wada's 348 anchors Pansy Purple, Olive Ocher and Olympic Blue in the red 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 — Pansy Purple on Olive Ocher — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.16:1, 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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