Carmine Red & Madder Brown +1

About this combination

Combination 237 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 3-colour grouping of Carmine Red, Madder Brown, Salvia Blue, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 237 of Wada's 348 anchors Carmine Red, Madder Brown 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 — Madder Brown on Salvia Blue — reaches a contrast ratio of 4.22:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.