Burnt Sienna & Apricot Yellow +1

About this combination

Combination 198 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Burnt Sienna, Apricot Yellow, Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 198 of Wada's 348 anchors Burnt Sienna, Apricot Yellow and Green in the orange 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 — Burnt Sienna on Apricot Yellow — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.87:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.