Yellow Ocher & Yellow Orange +1

About this combination

Combination 222 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Yellow Ocher, Yellow Orange, Orange Rufous, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 222 of Wada's 348 anchors Yellow Ocher, Yellow Orange and Orange Rufous 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 — Yellow Ocher on Orange Rufous — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.02:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.