Cinnamon Buff & Lemon Yellow +1

About this combination

Combination 210 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Cinnamon Buff, Lemon Yellow, Lincoln Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 210 of Wada's 348 anchors Cinnamon Buff, Lemon Yellow and Lincoln Green 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 — Lemon Yellow on Lincoln Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 6.08:1, meeting the WCAG AA bar for body text, so it holds up for text-on-colour layouts as well as decorative use.