Light Brown Drab & Burnt Sienna +2

About this combination

Combination 285 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Light Brown Drab, Burnt Sienna, Peach Red, Turquoise Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 285 of Wada's 348 anchors Light Brown Drab, Burnt Sienna, Peach Red and Turquoise Green in the red family — a 4-colour grouping with a refined, warm, 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 — Burnt Sienna on Turquoise Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.54:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.