Vinaceous Cinnamon & Apricot Yellow +1

About this combination

Combination 213 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Vinaceous Cinnamon, Apricot Yellow, Pale King's Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 213 of Wada's 348 anchors Vinaceous Cinnamon, Apricot Yellow and Pale King's 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 — Vinaceous Cinnamon on Apricot Yellow — reaches a contrast ratio of 1.48:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.