Ivory Buff & Light Glaucous Blue +1

About this combination

Combination 178 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Ivory Buff, Light Glaucous Blue, Green Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 178 of Wada's 348 anchors Ivory Buff, Light Glaucous Blue and Green 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 — Ivory Buff on Green Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.61:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.