Burnt Sienna & Yellow Orange +2

About this combination

Combination 312 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Burnt Sienna, Yellow Orange, Artemesia Green, Helvetia Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 312 of Wada's 348 anchors Burnt Sienna, Yellow Orange, Artemesia Green and Helvetia 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 — Yellow Orange on Helvetia Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.42:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.