Ivory Buff & Yellow Orange +1

About this combination

Combination 235 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Ivory Buff, Yellow Orange, Grayish Lavender - B, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 235 of Wada's 348 anchors Ivory Buff, Yellow Orange and Grayish Lavender - B in the yellow family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined 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 Grayish Lavender - B — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.50:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.