Pompeian Red & Orange Citrine +1

About this combination

Combination 212 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Pompeian Red, Orange Citrine, Salvia Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 212 of Wada's 348 anchors Pompeian Red, Orange Citrine and Salvia 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 — Pompeian Red on Salvia Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.97:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.