About this combination
Combination 226 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Vistoris Lake, Cream Yellow, Violet, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 226 of Wada's 348 anchors Vistoris Lake, Cream Yellow and Violet in the red family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, warm character, recorded in Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations (six volumes; Seigensha Art Publishing 2010 reprint), and in the public domain by age. Its strongest pairing — Cream Yellow on Violet — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.32:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.
Studio
Taking Vistoris Lake & Cream Yellow +1 off the screen
A hex code is an instruction to a screen, not a colour. Where this palette is going decides what it needs next.
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...onto paper
Start here if the palette gets printed. Screen colour and ink colour are not the same colour, and this is the deck that translates between them.
Pantone
Color Bridge Guide — coated
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...onto a screen you can trust
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Calibrite
Display Plus HL colorimeter kit
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...by hand
Start here if you are mixing it. Wada's plates were flat printed colour; gansai pans are the closest everyday medium to them.
Pentel
Fude Touch brush sign pen
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