Apricot Yellow & Turquoise Green +1

About this combination

Combination 163 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Apricot Yellow, Turquoise Green, Antwarp Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 163 of Wada's 348 anchors Apricot Yellow, Turquoise Green and Antwarp 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 — Apricot Yellow on Antwarp Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.14:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.