Showa era · refined · warm · austere

Etruscan Red & Grayish Lavender - B

Plate 47 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Etruscan Red, Grayish Lavender - B.

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Combination 47 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A two-colour pairing of Etruscan Red, Grayish Lavender - B, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 47 of Wada's 348 anchors Etruscan Red and Grayish Lavender - B 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 — Etruscan Red on Grayish Lavender - B — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.03:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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