Pale Burnt Lake & Yellow Orange +1

About this combination

Combination 171 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Pale Burnt Lake, Yellow Orange, Glaucous Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 171 of Wada's 348 anchors Pale Burnt Lake, Yellow Orange and Glaucous Green 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 — Pale Burnt Lake on Glaucous Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.60:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.