Ivory Buff & Sudan Brown +1

About this combination

Combination 214 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Ivory Buff, Sudan Brown, Violet, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 214 of Wada's 348 anchors Ivory Buff, Sudan Brown and Violet 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 — Ivory Buff on Violet — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.96:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.