Eugenia Red | B & Ivory Buff +2

About this combination

Combination 262 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Eugenia Red | B, Ivory Buff, Citrine, Cossack Green, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 262 of Wada's 348 anchors Eugenia Red | B, Ivory Buff, Citrine and Cossack Green in the red family — a 4-colour grouping with a refined, warm, bold 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 — Ivory Buff on Cossack Green — reaches a contrast ratio of 3.63:1, usable for large text but not body copy, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.