Sanzo Wada Combination No. 90: Hex Codes & Room Preview

Combination No. 90 in use

The palette applied to simple layouts. Colors are assigned to roles automatically; try other arrangements.

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Background, surface, text and accent, taken from one of Wada’s combinations.

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Combination No. 90 as a living room

Painted following the 60-30-10 rule: about 60% wall color, 30% for the sofa, 10% for cushions, throw and vase. A fourth color goes to the rug and curtains; otherwise they stay undyed. Floor and ceiling stay neutral; the print shows the whole palette.

Readable text pairs

No pair of colors in this combination reaches a contrast of 3:1, so it is best used without text.

Analysis

Character

Medium & moderate

Lightness 67 (range 61–73)
Colorfulness 0.126

Average OKLCH lightness (0–100) and chroma (colorfulness).

Harmony

Analogous

Neighboring hues on the color wheel.

A heuristic based on the painter’s color wheel. Wada’s combinations often ignore textbook rules, which is part of their appeal.

Temperature

Warm & cool

Eosine PinkWarm
Aconite VioletCool

Reds, oranges and yellows count as warm; greens, blues and violets as cool.

Distinctness

ΔE 22

Closest pair ΔE 21.5 · average ΔE 21.5

CIEDE2000 color difference. Below about 10 colors look related; above 30 they are clearly distinct.

Contrast

AaBest text pair: Eosine Pink on Aconite Violet (1.6:1)

Contrast	WCAG	APCA Lc
AaAaEosine Pink · Aconite Violet	1.6:1Low	18 / 16

WCAG 2 contrast ratio for text, and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for each text/background direction.

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/* Sanzo Wada, combination No. 90 */
:root {
  --eosine-pink: #f37f94; /* Eosine Pink */
  --aconite-violet: #a36aa5; /* Aconite Violet */
}

/* Tailwind CSS v4 – Sanzo Wada, combination No. 90 */
@theme {
  --color-eosine-pink: #f37f94;
  --color-aconite-violet: #a36aa5;
}

{
  "id": 90,
  "source": "Sanzo Wada, A Dictionary of Color Combinations",
  "colors": [
    {
      "name": "Eosine Pink",
      "hex": "#f37f94",
      "rgb": [
        243,
        127,
        148
      ],
      "cmyk": [
        0,
        63,
        23,
        0
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Aconite Violet",
      "hex": "#a36aa5",
      "rgb": [
        163,
        106,
        165
      ],
      "cmyk": [
        39,
        68,
        5,
        0
      ]
    }
  ]
}

No. 90

Eosine Pink

Aconite Violet

Combination No. 90 in use

Combination No. 90 as a living room

Readable text pairs

Analysis

Character

Harmony

Temperature

Distinctness

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