Cream Yellow & Olive Ocher +2

About this combination

Combination 278 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Cream Yellow, Olive Ocher, Cossack Green, Dusky Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 278 of Wada's 348 anchors Cream Yellow, Olive Ocher, Cossack Green and Dusky Green 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 Dusky Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 5.81:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.