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Showa era · refined · warm

Carmine & Yellow +1

Plate 154 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Carmine, Yellow, Blue.

Carmine

#cc1236

Yellow

#fff200

Blue

#006eb8

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About this combination

Combination 154 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Carmine, Yellow, Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 154 of Wada's 348 anchors Carmine, Yellow and Blue 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 — Carmine on Yellow — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.84:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.

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