Golden Yellow & Apricot Orange +2

About this combination

Combination 309 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Golden Yellow, Apricot Orange, Violet Blue, Vandar Poel's Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 309 of Wada's 348 anchors Golden Yellow, Apricot Orange, Violet Blue and Vandar Poel's Blue in the orange 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 — Golden Yellow on Violet Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.44:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.