Cream Yellow & Vandyke Brown +1

About this combination

Combination 192 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Cream Yellow, Vandyke Brown, Deep Violet / Plumbeous, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 192 of Wada's 348 anchors Cream Yellow, Vandyke Brown and Deep Violet / Plumbeous in the yellow 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 — Cream Yellow on Vandyke Brown — reaches a contrast ratio of 7.19:1, clearing the WCAG AAA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.