Cream Yellow & Yellow Orange +2

About this combination

Combination 267 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Cream Yellow, Yellow Orange, Benzol Green, Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 267 of Wada's 348 anchors Cream Yellow, Yellow Orange, Benzol Green and Blue in the yellow family — a 4-colour grouping with a refined, cool, bold 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 — Cream Yellow on Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.27:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.