Burnt Sienna & Ivory Buff +2

About this combination

Combination 343 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Burnt Sienna, Ivory Buff, Deep Grayish Olive, Vandar Poel's Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 343 of Wada's 348 anchors Burnt Sienna, Ivory Buff, Deep Grayish Olive 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 — Ivory Buff on Vandar Poel's Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 6.11:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.