Light Brown Drab & Yellow Ocher +1

About this combination

Combination 191 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Light Brown Drab, Yellow Ocher, Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 191 of Wada's 348 anchors Light Brown Drab, Yellow Ocher and 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 — Yellow Ocher on Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.78:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.