Raw Sienna & Apricot Yellow +2

About this combination

Combination 319 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Raw Sienna, Apricot Yellow, Yellow Orange, Cossack Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 319 of Wada's 348 anchors Raw Sienna, Apricot Yellow, Yellow Orange and Cossack Green 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 — Apricot Yellow on Cossack Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.94:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.