About this combination
Combination 30 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Pompeian Red, Mineral Gray, as documented in the original plates.
Historical context
Plate 30 of Wada's 348 anchors Pompeian Red and Mineral Gray in the red 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 — Pompeian Red on Mineral Gray — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.07:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.