Khaki & Deep Lyons Blue +1

About this combination

Combination 236 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Khaki, Deep Lyons Blue, Purple Drab, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 236 of Wada's 348 anchors Khaki, Deep Lyons Blue and Purple Drab 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 — Khaki on Deep Lyons Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.11:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.