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Golden Yellow & Apricot Orange +2

Plate 309 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Golden Yellow, Apricot Orange, Violet Blue, Vandar Poel's Blue.

Golden Yellow

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Apricot Orange

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Violet Blue

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Vandar Poel's Blue

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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

This palette is inspired by the tradition of Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, which cataloged combinations drawn from centuries of Japanese cultural life. The specific colors here use traditional shikisai names that have been in the public domain for generations.

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