Eugenia Red | B & Lincoln Green +2

About this combination

Combination 280 of 348 in Wada's six-volume 1933 work. A 4-colour grouping of Eugenia Red | B, Lincoln Green, Laelia Pink, Taupe Brown, as documented in the original plates.

Historical context

Plate 280 of Wada's 348 anchors Eugenia Red | B, Lincoln Green, Laelia Pink and Taupe Brown 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 — Laelia Pink on Taupe Brown — reaches a contrast ratio of 2.94:1, below the WCAG text-contrast floor, so it reads best in decorative blocks rather than text pairings.