Brown & Pinkish Cinnamon +1

About this combination

Combination 161 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Brown, Pinkish Cinnamon, Helvetia Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 161 of Wada's 348 anchors Brown, Pinkish Cinnamon and Helvetia 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 — Brown on Pinkish Cinnamon — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.31:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.