Coral Red & Lemon Yellow +1

About this combination

Combination 123 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Coral Red, Lemon Yellow, Taupe Brown, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 123 of Wada's 348 anchors Coral Red, Lemon Yellow and Taupe Brown in the red family — a 3-colour grouping with a refined, warm 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 — Lemon Yellow on Taupe Brown — reaches a contrast ratio of 6.16:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.