Lemon Yellow & Cinnamon Rufous +1

About this combination

Combination 158 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Lemon Yellow, Cinnamon Rufous, Night Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 158 of Wada's 348 anchors Lemon Yellow, Cinnamon Rufous and Night Green in the yellow 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 Cinnamon Rufous — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.90:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.