About this combination
Combination 167 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Ecru, Pale King's Blue, Vandar Poel's Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 167 of Wada's 348 anchors Ecru, Pale King's Blue and Vandar Poel's Blue in the orange family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, warm character, recorded in Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations (six volumes; Seigensha Art Publishing 2010 reprint), and in the public domain by age. Its strongest pairing — Pale King's Blue on Vandar Poel's Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.61:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.
Studio
Taking Ecru & Pale King's Blue +1 off the screen
A hex code is an instruction to a screen, not a colour. Where this palette is going decides what it needs next.
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...onto paper
Start here if the palette gets printed. Screen colour and ink colour are not the same colour, and this is the deck that translates between them.
Pantone
Color Bridge Guide — coated
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...onto a screen you can trust
Start here if it stays digital. An uncalibrated monitor is the single most common reason a palette that looked right on your desk looks wrong everywhere else.
Calibrite
Display Plus HL colorimeter kit
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...by hand
Start here if you are mixing it. Wada's plates were flat printed colour; gansai pans are the closest everyday medium to them.
Kuretake
Gansai Tambi 24 — Art Nouveau
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