Citron Yellow & Pale King's Blue +1

About this combination

Combination 196 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Citron Yellow, Pale King's Blue, Blue Violet, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 196 of Wada's 348 anchors Citron Yellow, Pale King's Blue and Blue Violet 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 — Pale King's Blue on Blue Violet — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.11:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.