About this combination
Combination 330 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Olive Buff, Nile Blue, Salvia Blue, Green Blue, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 330 of Wada's 348 anchors Olive Buff, Nile Blue, Salvia Blue and Green Blue in the yellow family — a 4-colour grouping with a refined, cool, bold character, recorded in Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations (six volumes; Seigensha Art Publishing 2010 reprint), and in the public domain by age. Its strongest pairing — Nile Blue on Green Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.79:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.
Studio
Taking Olive Buff & Nile Blue +2 off the screen
A hex code is an instruction to a screen, not a colour. Where this palette is going decides what it needs next.
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...onto paper
Start here if the palette gets printed. Screen colour and ink colour are not the same colour, and this is the deck that translates between them.
Pantone
Color Bridge Guide — coated
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...onto a screen you can trust
Start here if it stays digital. An uncalibrated monitor is the single most common reason a palette that looked right on your desk looks wrong everywhere else.
Calibrite
Display Plus HL colorimeter kit
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...by hand
Start here if you are mixing it. Wada's plates were flat printed colour; gansai pans are the closest everyday medium to them.
Pentel
Fude Touch brush sign pen
Listed on Amazon as Pentel Fude Touch Sign Pen, Black, Felt Pen Like Brush Stroke (SES15C-A) 3 Pieces
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