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Showa era · refined · warm

Hay's Russet & Ochraceous Salmon +1

Plate 186 from Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations — Hay's Russet, Ochraceous Salmon, Blue.

Hay's Russet

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Ochraceous Salmon

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Blue

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About this combination

Combination 186 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Hay's Russet, Ochraceous Salmon, Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 186 of Wada's 348 anchors Hay's Russet, Ochraceous Salmon 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 — Hay's Russet on Ochraceous Salmon — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.08:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.

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