Showa era · refined · warm · austere

Cinnamon Rufous & Dark Citrine

Plate 10 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Cinnamon Rufous, Dark Citrine.

Cinnamon Rufous

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Dark Citrine

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About this combination

Combination 10 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Cinnamon Rufous, Dark Citrine, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 10 of Wada's 348 anchors Cinnamon Rufous and Dark Citrine in the orange family — a 2-colour grouping with a refined, warm, austere 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 — Cinnamon Rufous on Dark Citrine — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.08:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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