Raw Sienna & English Red +1

About this combination

Combination 131 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Raw Sienna, English Red, Peacock Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 131 of Wada's 348 anchors Raw Sienna, English Red and Peacock Blue in the orange 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 — Raw Sienna on English Red — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.07:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.